21 Top business books like The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value (Management on the Cutting Edge) by Marco Bertini

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The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value (Management on the Cutting Edge)

By: Marco Bertini

4.00

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce by pursuing “ends”—actual outcomes—rather than s…

If you liked the business plot in The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value (Management on the Cutting Edge) by Marco Bertini , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

By: Michael Bungay Stanier

4.02

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your d… read more

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2. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

By: Herminia Ibarra

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

You aspire to lead with greater impact.The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You… read more

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3. High Output Management

By: Andrew S. Grove

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses--the art of the entrepreneur--can be… read more

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4. The Sales Development Playbook: Build Repeatable Pipeline and Accelerate Growth with Inside Sales

By: Trish Bertuzzi

4.04

Format: 368 pages,

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5. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

By: Ben Horowitz

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally h… read more

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6. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

By: Clayton M. Christensen

3.92

Format: 368 pages,

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7. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

By: Robert B. Cialdini

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how … read more

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"Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed."

-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

"The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good."

-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

"A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do."

-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

"The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so ou…"

-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

8. How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People

By: Les Giblin

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Taking a brass tacks approach to communication, How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With Pe… read more

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9. Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

By: Gino Wickman

3.00

Format: None pages,

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? Don't let common pro… read more

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10. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

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"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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11. 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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"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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12. How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

By: Annie Duke

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a blend of compelling exercises, illustrations, and stories, the bestselling author of Thin… read more

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13. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

By: Eric Jorgenson

4.44

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more

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"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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14. Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

By: Frank Slootman

4.07

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerThe secret to leading growth is you… read more

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15. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

By: Steven Kotler

4.22

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Bestselling author, peak performance expert and Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective,… read more

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"Happiness becomes untethered to income, because once we can meet our basic needs, the lure of all the stuff it took to meet them, begins to lose its luster. Once extrinsic drivers start to fade, intr…"

-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

"Guilford also realized that divergent thinking wasn't entirely free wheeling: It had four core characteristics. Fluency, the ability to produce a great number of ideas in a short time-frame; flexibil…"

-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

"Once, unfortunately, in a crisis situation (as the Greek poet Archilochus pointed out so long ago) we don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Once again, th…"

-Steven Kotler, The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer

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16. 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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17. Emotion By Design: Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike

By: Greg Hoffman

3.75

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Innovative strategies for success from former Nike CMO Greg Hoffman, who had a major hand in crafti… read more

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Cover of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) by Amy Gallo

18. Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)

By: Amy Gallo

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named one of "22 new books…that you should consider reading before the year is out" by Fortune A… read more

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Cover of Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It by Tien Tzuo

19. Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It

By: Tien Tzuo

3.96

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Salesforce are just the tip of the iceberg for the subscriptio… read more

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20. Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers' Hearts

By: Neil Hoyne

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When the world’s biggest brands want to sharpen their digital marketing strategy, they call Neil Ho… read more

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Cover of Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation by Amy C. Edmondson

21. Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Building the Future Machiavelli famously wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, … read more

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22. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value (Management on the Cutting Edge)

By: Marco Bertini

4.00

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce by pursuing “ends”—actual outcomes—rather than s… read more

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23. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation (with featured article "Reinventing Your Business Model" by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann)

By: Harvard Business Review

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Your company needs a winning business model to thrive--and it may soon need to reinvent that busine… read more

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Cover of The Future of Competitive Strategy: Unleashing the Power of Data and Digital Ecosystems (Management on the Cutting Edge) by Mohan Subramaniam

24. The Future of Competitive Strategy: Unleashing the Power of Data and Digital Ecosystems (Management on the Cutting Edge)

By: Mohan Subramaniam

4.22

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

How legacy firms can combine their traditional strengths with the power of data and digital ecosyst… read more

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25. Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation into Your Company’s DNA

By: Ben M. Bensaou

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Thinkers50 Best New Management Book for 2022 Launch your company to the top of its industry by dr… read more

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