Books like Topgrading: The Proven Hiring and Promoting Method That Turbocharges Company Performance

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Who: The A Method for Hiring

Geoff Smart and Randy Street · Business

Who is a short, methodical book about hiring — specifically about why most companies make the same predictable mistakes when choosing people, and how a structured process called the A Method can fix them.

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First, Break All the Rules

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman · Business

First, Break All the Rules is the result of Gallup's analysis of interviews with more than 80,000 managers across a variety of industries, aimed at identifying what distinguishes the best managers from the rest.

A kindred business read.

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Good to Great

Jim Collins · Business

Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?

A kindred business read.

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The Ideal Team Player

Patrick Lencioni · Business

The Ideal Team Player is Patrick Lencioni's business fable about the three qualities that distinguish people who thrive in team environments from those who undermine them.

Both dig into hiring.

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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.

A kindred business read.

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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Laszlo Bock · Business

Work Rules!

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Accelerate

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.

Both dig into organizational performance.

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An Everyone Culture

Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey · Business

An Everyone Culture introduces what Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey call the Deliberately Developmental Organization — a company designed around the idea that the work of personal growth and the work of business performance are not separate activities but the same thing.

Both dig into leadership development.

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Co-Active Coaching

Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth · Business

Co-Active Coaching presents the model developed at the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), which has trained more professional coaches than any other organization in the world.

Both dig into leadership development.

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Execution

Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan · Business

Execution is Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan's argument that the biggest gap in business is not strategy but implementation.

Both dig into organizational performance.

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Measure What Matters

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 organizational performance.

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Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

Patty McCord · Business

Powerful is Patty McCord's account of the people philosophy she developed as Chief Talent Officer at Netflix between 1998 and 2012.

Both dig into talent management.