18 books like Built to Last

What to read after Built to Last — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

This Is Strategy

This Is Strategy Seth Godin · 2024 · ★ 4.1 A Best Non-Fiction Book of 2024 from The Next Big Idea Book Club and National Bestseller. From Seth Godin, one of the world's most influential business thinkers and bestselling author of This is Marketing, comes an essential guide to thinking strategically in a complex, ever-changing world."With his signature clarity and brevity, the marketing maven presents memorable, practical advice for making… Shares Economics, Business

Flying Blind

Flying Blind Peter Robison · 2021 · ★ 4.2 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cutthroat management--that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation Boeing is a century-old titan of American industry. The largest exporter in the US, it played a central role in the early days of commercial flight, World War II bombing missions, and moon landings. It remains a… Shares Economics, Business

The Power of Differentiation

The Power of Differentiation Barry LaBov · 2024 Shares Economics, Business with this book.

AI First

AI First Adam Brotman & Andy Sack · 2025 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Economics, Business with this book.

Pushing Up People

Pushing Up People Art Williams · 1984 · ★ 4.5 · 173p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Pushing Up People is about time-tested, proven principles that will help you identify winners, get the most out of your people, help your people have fantastic success and, ultimately, push YOU to the top!! This was the definitive book that explained how to be a success in multi-level marketing - it is all about how to treat your people to create a winning team - Art Williams did it and so… Shares Success in business, Business

Key performance indicators David Parmenter · 2007 · ★ 5.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Breathtaking in its simplicity and profound in its impact, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) distills the balanced scorecard process into twelve logical steps, equipping users with an implementation resource kit that includes questionnaires, worksheets, workshop outlines, and a list of over 500 performance measures. Author David Parmenter provides you with everything you need to master and… Shares Economics, Business

Analysis of Economic Data Gary Koop · 2000 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Analysis of Economic Data teaches methods of data analysis to students whose primary interest is not in econometrics, statistics or mathematics. It shows students how to apply econometric techniques in the context of real-world empirical problems. It adopts a largely non-mathematical approach relying on verbal and graphical intuition and covers most of the tools used in modern econometrics… Shares Economics, Business

Secrets of Sand Hill Road

Secrets of Sand Hill Road Scott Kupor · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "What are venture capitalists saying about your startup behind closed doors? And what can you do to influence that conversation? If Silicon Valley is the greatest wealth-generating machine in the world, Sand Hill Road is its humming engine. That's where you'll find the biggest names in venture capital, including famed VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, where lawyer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-VC Scott… Shares Entrepreneurship, Business

Managing for Results Peter F. Drucker · 1964 · ★ 4.2 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 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 classic, The Practice of Management. The earlier book was chiefly concerned with how management functions; this volume shows what the executive decision-maker must do to move his… Shares Entrepreneurship, Industrial management, Economics, Business

Marketing and Management Models

Marketing and Management Models Helen Strong · 2014 Shares Industrial management, Business with this book.

Your First Year in Network Marketing

Your First Year in Network Marketing Mark Yarnell & Rene Reid Yarnell How to Keep the Dream Alive!Network marketing is one of the fastest-growing career opportunities in the United States. Millions of people just like you have abandoned dead-end jobs for the chance to achieve the dream of growing their own businesses. What many of them find, however, is that the first year in network marketing is often the most challenging—and, for some, the most discouraging.… Shares Business

76 Cash Making, Deal Saving Closes

76 Cash Making, Deal Saving Closes Joe Sabatini Shares Business with this book.

Fearless Public Speaking

Fearless Public Speaking Patrick King Shares Business with this book.

The Great Demographic Reversal

The Great Demographic Reversal Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan · 2020 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality.  “Whatever the future holds”, the authors argue, “it will be nothing like the past”. Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily… Shares Economics

Summary of Allan Dib's The 1Page Marketing Plan

Summary of Allan Dib's The 1Page Marketing Plan Slingshot Books Shares Business with this book.

Building a StoryBrand 2.0

Building a StoryBrand 2.0 Donald Miller · 2025 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When you apply the StoryBrand framework your brand will stand out. Developing that framework to clarify your message and grow your business is about to get a whole lot simpler. . .Since the original publication of Building a StoryBrand, over one million business leaders have discovered Donald Miller's powerful StoryBrand framework, and their businesses are growing. Now, the classic resource… Shares Business

Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling

Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling Jeffrey Gitomer · 2023 Wall Street Journal Business Best-Seller, Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling is now available! It includes Jeffrey's 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness and strategies and answers from a lifetime of selling that will teach you how to make sales forever. In this book, you will have the opportunity to understand why sales happen. And by mastering the elements that Jeffrey Gitomer gives… Shares Business

On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition

On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition William Zinsser · 2012 "On Writing Well is a bible for a generation of writers looking for clues to clean, compelling prose." —New York TimesA beloved classic and the definitive volume on the art of writing nonfictionOn Writing Well, which grew out of a course that William Zinsser taught at Yale, has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity, and for the warmth of its style. It is a book for anybody who wants to… Shares Business

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