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Books like The Ride of a Lifetime
The best books like The Ride of a Lifetime are Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, and The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon. The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger is about leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship. 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.
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace · Business
Creativity, Inc.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Ride of a Lifetime.
Read the summary → - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · Memoir
Shoe Dog is Phil Knight's account of the first two decades of Nike, from the $50 loan he borrowed from his father in 1964 to fund his first shipment of Japanese running shoes to the company's IPO in 1980.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
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 leadership and strategy with The Ride of a Lifetime.
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- 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 leadership and strategy with The Ride of a Lifetime.
Read the summary → - Trillion Dollar Coach
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Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle · Business
Trillion Dollar Coach is a tribute to Bill Campbell, the former football coach and Columbia University athletic director who became the most influential executive coach in Silicon Valley — coaching Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, Sheryl Sandberg, Jeff Bezos, and the co-founders of Google, among others.
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.
Shares leadership and strategy with The Ride of a Lifetime.
Read the summary → - Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter F. Drucker · Business
Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Drucker's systematic treatment of a subject that, in 1985, most people still regarded as the province of lone geniuses and lucky accidents.
Shares strategy and entrepreneurship with The Ride of a Lifetime.
Read the summary → - Loonshots
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Safi Bahcall · Business
Loonshots is physicist and biotech CEO Safi Bahcall's argument that the most transformative innovations — the kind he calls loonshots, after the eccentric northern bird — are fragile ideas that look foolish or impossible until they suddenly aren't, and that organizations systematically kill them long before they get a chance to prove themselves.
Shares leadership and strategy with The Ride of a Lifetime.
Read the summary → - Superbosses
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Sydney Finkelstein · Business
Superbosses is Sydney Finkelstein's study of a specific type of leader — one whose primary legacy is not what they built but who they developed.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Ride of a Lifetime.
Read the summary → - The Art of the Start 2.0
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Guy Kawasaki · Business
The Art of the Start 2.0 is Guy Kawasaki's updated guide to launching a company, product, or movement.
Shares leadership and entrepreneurship with The Ride of a Lifetime.
Read the summary → - The Startup Playbook
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David S. Kidder · Business
The Startup Playbook is David Kidder's collection of firsthand lessons from forty prominent founders, including Reid Hoffman, Sara Blakely, Kevin Plank, and Alexis Ohanian.
Shares leadership and entrepreneurship with The Ride of a Lifetime.
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.
Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Ride of a Lifetime.
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Books like The Ride of a Lifetime: quick answers
What are the best books like The Ride of a Lifetime?
The best books like The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger are Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Ride of a Lifetime, such as leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship.
What should I read after The Ride of a Lifetime?
A natural next read after The Ride of a Lifetime is Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace. Shares leadership and organizational culture with The Ride of a Lifetime. Other strong choices are Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer.
What books are similar to The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger?
The Ride of a Lifetime centers on leadership, strategy, entrepreneurship. Books with a similar feel include Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins & William Lazier — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
