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Books like The Lean Manager
The best books like The Lean Manager are The Lean Startup, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, and High Output Management. The Lean Manager by Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé is about lean management, operations, leadership. 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.
- The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox · Business
The Goal is a business novel — written as fiction to make operational management ideas accessible — that introduced the Theory of Constraints to a broad audience.
Shares operations and continuous improvement with The Lean Manager.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into leadership.
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- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford · Business
The Phoenix Project is a business novel — structured like The Goal, which it explicitly acknowledges — that applies the Theory of Constraints and lean manufacturing principles to IT operations and software delivery.
Shares operations and continuous improvement with The Lean Manager.
Read the summary → - Accelerate
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Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim · Business
Accelerate is the research-backed account of what actually makes software delivery teams fast without sacrificing stability.
Shares leadership and continuous improvement with The Lean Manager.
Read the summary → - No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
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No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer · Business
No Rules Rules is Reed Hastings's account of the management philosophy that has governed Netflix since the company pivoted from DVDs to streaming and built one of the most watched entertainment platforms in the world.
Shares operations and leadership with The Lean Manager.
Read the summary → - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone · Business
The Everything Store is Brad Stone's account of Amazon's founding and growth from a book retailer to one of the most powerful companies in the world.
Shares operations and leadership with The Lean Manager.
Read the summary → - Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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Frank Slootman · Business
Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Behind the Cloud
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Marc Benioff · Business
Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Beyond Entrepreneurship
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Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business
Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Brave New Work
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Aaron Dignan · Business
Brave New Work is Aaron Dignan's diagnosis of why most organizations are dysfunctional and a practical guide to building something better.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Build
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Tony Fadell · Business
Tony Fadell was the engineer who built the iPod, the executive who led the team that created the original iPhone, and the founder of Nest, the thermostat company he sold to Google for $3.2 billion.
Both dig into leadership.
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Books like The Lean Manager: quick answers
What are the best books like The Lean Manager?
The best books like The Lean Manager by Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé are The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Lean Manager, such as lean management, operations, leadership.
What should I read after The Lean Manager?
A natural next read after The Lean Manager is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford.
What books are similar to The Lean Manager by Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé?
The Lean Manager centers on lean management, operations, leadership. Books with a similar feel include The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
