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Books like The Lean Manager

The Lean Manager by Michael Ballé and Freddy Ballé is about lean management, operations, leadership. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Lean Startup
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    The Lean Startup

    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.

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  2. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
    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.

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  3. High Output Management
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    High Output Management

    Andrew S. Grove · Business

    High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.

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  4. The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
    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.

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  5. 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them
    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

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    100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

    Christopher Mayer · Business

    Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.

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  6. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

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    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

    Hamilton Helmer · Business

    7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.

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