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Books like The Great CEO Within
The best books like The Great CEO Within are High Output Management, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and Radical Candor. The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary is about leadership, startup operations, personal effectiveness. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- High Output Management
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
Read the summary → - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
Read the summary → - Radical Candor
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Kim Scott · Business
Radical Candor is Kim Scott's framework for the central management challenge: how to tell people what they need to hear without damaging the relationship.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Measure What Matters
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John Doerr · Business
Measure What Matters is John Doerr's account of Objectives and Key Results — the goal-setting framework he learned from Andy Grove at Intel, carried to Google in 1999, and has since deployed across hundreds of companies and nonprofits.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - An Elegant Puzzle
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Will Larson · Business
An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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Richard Rumelt · Business
Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
Read the summary → - Leadership Is Language
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L. David Marquet · Business
Leadership Is Language is L.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
Read the summary → - Leading
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Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz · Business
Leading is Sir Alex Ferguson's account of what he learned managing Manchester United for twenty-seven years, written with Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
Read the summary → - Only the Paranoid Survive
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
Only the Paranoid Survive is Andrew Grove's account of how he understood and navigated the most dangerous moments in a company's life — what he calls strategic inflection points.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
Read the summary → - Principles
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Ray Dalio · Business
Principles is Ray Dalio's account of the mental models and management philosophy that he developed over forty years as founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
Read the summary → - The CEO Next Door
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Elena Botelho and Kim Powell · Business
The CEO Next Door is Elena Botelho and Kim Powell's data-driven portrait of what separates successful CEOs from unsuccessful ones.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
Read the summary → - The Clarity Principle
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Chatham Sullivan · Business
The Clarity Principle argues that the most important task of leadership is not strategy, culture, or execution — it's achieving clarity about what your organization actually is and what it is trying to do.
Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within.
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Books like The Great CEO Within: quick answers
What are the best books like The Great CEO Within?
The best books like The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Great CEO Within, such as leadership, startup operations, personal effectiveness.
What should I read after The Great CEO Within?
A natural next read after The Great CEO Within is High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. Shares leadership and decision-making with The Great CEO Within. Other strong choices are The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Measure What Matters by John Doerr.
What books are similar to The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary?
The Great CEO Within centers on leadership, startup operations, personal effectiveness. Books with a similar feel include High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Measure What Matters by John Doerr, An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
