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Books like Who: The A Method for Hiring
The best books like Who: The A Method for Hiring are Good to Great, First, Break All the Rules, and The Ideal Team Player. Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street is about hiring, talent selection, 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.
- Good to Great
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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?
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - First, Break All the Rules
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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.
Read the summary → - The Ideal Team Player
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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.
Shares hiring and leadership with Who: The A Method for Hiring.
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- 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 Who: The A Method for Hiring.
Read the summary → - Radical Candor
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Kim Scott · Business
Radical Candor is Kim Scott's framework for the central management challenge: how to tell people what they need to hear without damaging the relationship.
Both dig into leadership.
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 organizational performance with Who: The A Method for Hiring.
Read the summary → - Execution
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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.
Shares leadership and organizational performance with Who: The A Method for Hiring.
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 Who: The A Method for Hiring.
Read the summary → - Leadership Is Language
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L. David Marquet · Business
Leadership Is Language is L.
Shares leadership and decision-making with Who: The A Method for Hiring.
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 Who: The A Method for Hiring.
Read the summary → - Measure What Matters
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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.
Shares leadership and organizational performance with Who: The A Method for Hiring.
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 Who: The A Method for Hiring.
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Books like Who: The A Method for Hiring: quick answers
What are the best books like Who: The A Method for Hiring?
The best books like Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street are Good to Great by Jim Collins, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Who: The A Method for Hiring, such as hiring, talent selection, leadership.
What should I read after Who: The A Method for Hiring?
A natural next read after Who: The A Method for Hiring is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Both dig into leadership. Other strong choices are First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove.
What books are similar to Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street?
Who: The A Method for Hiring centers on hiring, talent selection, leadership. Books with a similar feel include Good to Great by Jim Collins, First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni, High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Radical Candor by Kim Scott, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
