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Management Behind the Scenes
How real companies organize people, goals, and strategy.
The books, in order
- 1
Business · 17 min
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
The biggest risk to a business that's working isn't competition from outside, it's complacency from inside, which is why Bezos treated every day as if it were the first.
- 2
Business · 17 min
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Treating your staff like a high-performance sports team rather than a family helps keep the work focused on competence and results, not emotional attachment.
- 3
Business · 18 min
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
Technical critique works best when the people evaluating the project have no hierarchical power to force mandatory changes on the team.
- 4
Business · 14 min
The Effective Executive
Peter Drucker
Effectiveness is a set of habits you learn by practicing, not a talent reserved for people who were born with a knack for being the boss.
- 5
Business · 16 min
The Practice of Management
Peter F. Drucker
Profit is the thermometer of a business, not its destination: it shows today's temperature, not where the company should be headed tomorrow.
- 6
Business · 16 min
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Counting miles driven or hours worked proves nothing if nobody paid for any of it in the end.
- 7
Business · 17 min
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
Wanting to do everything with good intentions is no substitute for the clarity of knowing exactly which number needs to change and by when.
- 8
Business · 16 min
Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Going head to head in a fight where everyone already knows the rules cuts your margin until all that's left is exhaustion.
- 9
Business · 16 min
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Michael E. Porter
Competition doesn't come only from people selling what you sell: suppliers, customers, substitutes and new entrants are all fighting for the same slice of profit.
- 10
Personal Finance · 15 min
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
Failing fast and writing down why you failed teaches you more than succeeding without understanding the reason.
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