Built to Last vs Managing for Results: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Entrepreneurship, Industrial management, Economics, Business
Built to Last
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"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor even is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book…
Managing for Results
“That executives give neither sufficient time nor sufficient thought to the future is a universal complaint.”
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The effective business, Peter Drucker observes, focuses on opportunities rather than problems. How this focus is achieved in order to make the organization prosper and grow is the subject of this companion to his…
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The verdict
- Readers rate Managing for Results highest: Managing for Results 4.1 · Built to Last 3.5.
- Managing for Results is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 6 for Built to Last.
- Managing for Results has the widest readership — 587 ratings behind its score.
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How to choose
Scores by source
| Built to Last | Managing for Results | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.2 (587) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (5) | — |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (182) | — |
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Reception
| Built to Last | Managing for Results | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 182 | 587 |
| Editions | 12 | 32 |
| Citations | — | 470 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | — | 1538 |
| Reading it now | — | 132 |
| Written reviews | — | 21 |
| Wikipedia attention | 3500 | — |
| Pages | 355 | 240 |
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Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: Built to Last or Managing for Results?
Managing for Results has the higher combined reader rating across sources (Managing for Results 4.1/5, Built to Last 3.5/5).
Which is shorter to read: Built to Last or Managing for Results?
Managing for Results is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: Managing for Results (240 pages, ≈ 4 h 27 m); Built to Last (355 pages, ≈ 6 h 34 m).
Which is harder to read: Built to Last or Managing for Results?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — Built to Last: Moderate; Managing for Results: Moderate.