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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
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Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Western companies have long focused on creating business models that can be grown, or scaled, easily.
Aditya Agashe • Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy (Fast Forward Your Product Career: The Two Books Required to Land Any PM Job)
In a recent study, Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at Dartmouth, found that for every 5,000 employees, at least 250 will be true innovators and 25 will be innovators and great intrapreneurs (or companies of one) as well.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
To determine how to win, an organization must decide what will enable it to create unique value and sustainably deliver that value to customers in a way that is distinct from the firm’s competitors.
A. G. Lafley • Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
Smart companies avoid defining their staff too narrowly when matching people to tasks.
Jonathan Littman • The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
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