16 best-selling management books like The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Rumelt

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The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

By: Richard P. Rumelt

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary framework to turn any leader into a st…

If you liked the management plot in The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Rumelt , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works

By: Roger L. Martin , A.G. Lafley

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Are you just playing--or playing to win? Strategy is not complex. But it ishard. It's hard because … read more

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2. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Housel's Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes book and Richard P. Rumelt's The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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3. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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4. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

By: Tony Fadell

4.33

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Written for anyone who wants to grow at work—from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs d… read more

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  • audiobook
  • technology
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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5. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • leadership
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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6. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

By: Shane Parrish

4.21

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more

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  • audiobook
  • management
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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7. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

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  • audiobook
  • management
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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8. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • business
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • management
  • leadership
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9. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

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  • audiobook
  • management
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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10. Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

By: Claire Hughes Johnson

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most impo… read more

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  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
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11. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI book and Richard P. Rumelt's The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • business
  • audiobook
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12. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

By: Hamilton Wright Helmer

4.29

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you … read more

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  • audiobook
  • business
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • economics
  • management
  • leadership
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13. Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

By: Marty Cagan

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

What is it about the top tech product companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and Tesla th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
"But anytime we interact with users and customers, we have a chance to learn more about them, and sometimes we discover even bigger opportunity if we're open to it"

-Marty Cagan, Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

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14. A New Way To Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness

By: Roger L. Martin

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

If you could imagine the ultimate guide to the essentials of strategy and management, from one of t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • business
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
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15. Loved: How to Market Tech Products Customers Adore

By: Martina Lauchengco

3.88

Format: None pages, ebook

In today�s hyper-competitive market, how a product is taken to market is at least as important as t… read more

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  • management
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model (Silicon Valley Product Group) by Marty Cagan

16. Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model (Silicon Valley Product Group)

By: Marty Cagan

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Help transform your business and innovate like the world’s top tech companies! In  INSPIRED, produ… read more

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  • audiobook
  • technology
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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17. Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification

By: Gene Kim

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful new book, bestselling and award-winning authors Gene Kim and Dr. Steve Spear prese… read more

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  • audiobook
  • business
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
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18. The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

By: Richard P. Rumelt

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary framework to turn any leader into a st… read more

Similar categories in Richard P. Rumelt's The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists book and Richard P. Rumelt's The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

  • audiobook
  • business
  • technology
  • psychology
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • education
  • management
  • leadership
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19. 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career

By: Jeffrey Pfeffer

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school… read more

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  • audiobook
  • business
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • buisness
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership by Will Larson

20. The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership

By: Will Larson

4.32

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

As an engineering manager, you almost always have someone in your company to turn to for a peer on… read more

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  • business
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • management
  • leadership
Cover of Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds by Chris Bradley

21. Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds

By: Chris Bradley

4.03

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Beat the odds with a bold strategy from McKinsey & Company "Every once in a while, a genuinely fre… read more

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  • audiobook
  • management
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • leadership

16 Best audiobook books like The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists by Richard P. Rumelt

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

Shane Parrish

4.21

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11 Best audiobook books like Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification by Gene Kim

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

Dominica Degrandis

4.10

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