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Books like Working Backwards
The best books like Working Backwards are High Output Management, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr is about amazon, leadership principles, product development. 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.
- 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.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz · Business
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.
A kindred business read.
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- 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.
A kindred business read.
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.
A kindred business read.
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.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - An Everyone Culture
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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 organizational culture.
Read the summary → - Build
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Tony Fadell · Business
Tony Fadell was the engineer who built the iPod, the executive who led the team that created the original iPhone, and the founder of Nest, the thermostat company he sold to Google for $3.2 billion.
Both dig into product development.
Read the summary → - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business
Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - 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.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - Dare to Lead
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Brené Brown · Business
Dare to Lead is Brené Brown's application of her research on vulnerability and courage to the specific context of leadership.
Both dig into organizational culture.
Read the summary → - Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
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Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture
Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn · Business
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture introduces the Competing Values Framework, a model Cameron and Quinn developed at the University of Michigan for assessing and intentionally changing organizational culture.
Both dig into organizational culture.
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Books like Working Backwards: quick answers
What are the best books like Working Backwards?
The best books like Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Working Backwards, such as amazon, leadership principles, product development.
What should I read after Working Backwards?
A natural next read after Working Backwards is High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim.
What books are similar to Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr?
Working Backwards centers on amazon, leadership principles, product development. Books with a similar feel include High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer, The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim, Team of Teams by Stanley McChrystal, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
