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Books like Turn the Ship Around!
The best books like Turn the Ship Around! are Leaders Eat Last, Extreme Ownership, and Team of Teams. Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet is about leadership, autonomy, organizational transformation. 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.
- Leaders Eat Last
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Simon Sinek · Business
Leaders Eat Last is Simon Sinek's argument that the best organizations run on a feeling he calls the Circle of Safety — an environment where people trust that the people above them in the hierarchy have their interests at heart.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Extreme Ownership
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Jocko Willink and Leif Babin · Business
Extreme Ownership is former Navy SEAL commanders Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's argument that the single most important principle in leadership is taking total responsibility for everything that happens under your command — not just your own actions but your team's performance, your mission's failure, and the behavior of those above you when it doesn't support your mission.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Team of Teams
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Stanley McChrystal · Business
Team of Teams is General Stanley McChrystal's account of how he restructured the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq to fight an enemy — Al-Qaeda in Iraq — that was organized in ways the conventional military hierarchy was too slow to counter.
Both dig into leadership.
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- The Culture Code
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Daniel Coyle · Business
The Culture Code is Daniel Coyle's investigation into what separates exceptional team cultures from average ones.
Both dig into leadership.
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 Turn the Ship Around!.
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.
Shares leadership and decision-making with Turn the Ship Around!.
Read the summary → - Leadership Is Language
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L. David Marquet · Business
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Shares leadership and decision-making with Turn the Ship Around!.
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 Turn the Ship Around!.
Read the summary → - Leading Change
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John P. Kotter · Business
Leading Change is John Kotter's synthesis of his research on organizational transformation, organized around an eight-stage process for successfully executing major change.
Shares leadership and organizational transformation with Turn the Ship Around!.
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 Turn the Ship Around!.
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 Turn the Ship Around!.
Read the summary → - The Age of Agile
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Stephen Denning · Business
The Age of Agile is Stephen Denning's case that Agile — the software development movement formalized in the 2001 Manifesto — has become a general management framework applicable to any organization facing complexity, speed, and the need for continuous customer value.
Shares leadership and organizational transformation with Turn the Ship Around!.
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Books like Turn the Ship Around!: quick answers
What are the best books like Turn the Ship Around!?
The best books like Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet are Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Turn the Ship Around!, such as leadership, autonomy, organizational transformation.
What should I read after Turn the Ship Around!?
A natural next read after Turn the Ship Around! is Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle.
What books are similar to Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet?
Turn the Ship Around! centers on leadership, autonomy, organizational transformation. Books with a similar feel include Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek, Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
