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Change Book Summaries

Good to Great
by Jim Collins • 2001
Eleven ordinary companies became extraordinary. It wasn't charisma, strategy, or pay.
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Good to Great Summary
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Good to Great
Eleven ordinary companies became extraordinary. It wasn't charisma, strategy, or pay.
by Jim Collins 2001
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200k+ ratings
The Courage to Be Disliked
by Ichiro Kishimi • 2013
Five nights with a philosopher who insists your problems serve you. Change that, change everything.
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The Courage to Be Disliked Summary
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Five nights with a philosopher who insists your problems serve you. Change that, change everything.
by Ichiro Kishimi 2013 289 pages
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The Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell • 2000
Three rules govern social epidemics, and the people who start them aren't who you'd expect.
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The Tipping Point Summary
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The Tipping Point
Three rules govern social epidemics, and the people who start them aren't who you'd expect.
by Malcolm Gladwell 2000 204 pages
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800k+ ratings
The Mountain Is You
by Brianna Wiest • 2020
Your self-sabotage is trying to protect you. Decode its logic and the pattern finally breaks.
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The Mountain Is You Summary
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The Mountain Is You
Your self-sabotage is trying to protect you. Decode its logic and the pattern finally breaks.
by Brianna Wiest 2020 248 pages
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Who Moved My Cheese?
by Spencer Johnson • 1998
A parable that makes your resistance to change more embarrassing than the change itself.
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Who Moved My Cheese? Summary
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Who Moved My Cheese?
A parable that makes your resistance to change more embarrassing than the change itself.
by Spencer Johnson 1998 94 pages
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You2
by Price Pritchett • 1994
Stop grinding. The shift that replaces years of effort with one breakthrough.
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You2 Summary
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You2
Stop grinding. The shift that replaces years of effort with one breakthrough.
by Price Pritchett 1994 38 pages
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Stop Letting Everything Affect You
by Daniel Chidiac • 2025
Rumination and reactivity are practiced habits. Rewire them with language, not willpower.
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Stop Letting Everything Affect You Summary
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Stop Letting Everything Affect You
Rumination and reactivity are practiced habits. Rewire them with language, not willpower.
by Daniel Chidiac 2025 171 pages
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8k+ ratings
Strong Ground
by Brené Brown • 2025
Your leadership ceiling is not your skill set. It is how much vulnerability you can bear.
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Strong Ground Summary
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Strong Ground
Your leadership ceiling is not your skill set. It is how much vulnerability you can bear.
by Brené Brown 2025 448 pages
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The 60-Something Crisis
by Barbara L. Pagano • 2022
Leisure fades two years in. Twenty years remain. A design for what money cannot solve.
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The 60-Something Crisis Summary
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The 60-Something Crisis
Leisure fades two years in. Twenty years remain. A design for what money cannot solve.
by Barbara L. Pagano 2022 240 pages
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158 ratings
Atomic Habits / I Will Teach You To Be Rich / Mindset / The One Thing
by James Clear • 2018
Systems beat goals, identity beats willpower. The method for habits that compound into 37x growth.
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Atomic Habits / I Will Teach You To Be Rich / Mindset / The One Thing Summary
Atomic Habits / I Will Teach You To Be Rich / Mindset / The One Thing
Systems beat goals, identity beats willpower. The method for habits that compound into 37x growth.
by James Clear 2018
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486 ratings
Organizational Culture and Leadership
by Edgar H. Schein • 1985
What leaders measure, reward, and panic over builds culture far more than what they proclaim.
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Organizational Culture and Leadership Summary
Organizational Culture and Leadership
What leaders measure, reward, and panic over builds culture far more than what they proclaim.
by Edgar H. Schein 1985 437 pages
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The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking
by Michael D. Watkins • 2024
Spotting threats before competitors do isn't a gift; six trainable mental skills drive it.
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The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking Summary
The Six Disciplines of Strategic Thinking
Spotting threats before competitors do isn't a gift; six trainable mental skills drive it.
by Michael D. Watkins 2024 192 pages
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Team of Teams
by Stanley McChrystal • 2015
A general beat a fast-moving insurgency by scrapping his own chain of command.
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Team of Teams Summary
Team of Teams
A general beat a fast-moving insurgency by scrapping his own chain of command.
by Stanley McChrystal 2015 304 pages
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13k+ ratings
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
by Amy Morin • 2014
Thirteen behaviors to quit, not habits to add. The counterintuitive path to mental strength.
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13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do Summary
13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do
Thirteen behaviors to quit, not habits to add. The counterintuitive path to mental strength.
by Amy Morin 2014 272 pages
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29k+ ratings
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership
by Jeffrey K. Liker • 2011
Toyota's tools get copied. Its real advantage, growing leaders who teach, almost never does.
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The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership Summary
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership
Toyota's tools get copied. Its real advantage, growing leaders who teach, almost never does.
by Jeffrey K. Liker 2011 321 pages
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1k+ ratings
Meditations for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman • 2024
Four weeks to stop chasing impossible control and start living the life you keep postponing.
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Meditations for Mortals Summary
Meditations for Mortals
Four weeks to stop chasing impossible control and start living the life you keep postponing.
by Oliver Burkeman 2024 208 pages
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Transitions
by William Bridges • 2004
Real transformation requires an ending, then an empty gap. Skip the gap and nothing genuine begins.
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Transitions Summary
Transitions
Real transformation requires an ending, then an empty gap. Skip the gap and nothing genuine begins.
by William Bridges 2004 224 pages
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Immunity to Change
by Robert Kegan • 2009
Change efforts fail because they target symptoms, not the hidden immune system keeping you stuck.
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Immunity to Change Summary
Immunity to Change
Change efforts fail because they target symptoms, not the hidden immune system keeping you stuck.
by Robert Kegan 2009 340 pages
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2k+ ratings
Leading Change
by John P. Kotter • 1988
Change fails when leaders skip urgency. A practical sequence for making transformation permanent.
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Leading Change Summary
Leading Change
Change fails when leaders skip urgency. A practical sequence for making transformation permanent.
by John P. Kotter 1988 208 pages
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Personality Isn't Permanent
by Benjamin P. Hardy • 2020
What if every personality test you took was wrong, and you could choose who to become?
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Personality Isn't Permanent Summary
Personality Isn't Permanent
What if every personality test you took was wrong, and you could choose who to become?
by Benjamin P. Hardy 2020 272 pages
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Be Your Future Self Now
by Benjamin P. Hardy • 2022
Your brain is already placing bets on who you'll become. Why not pick the winner.
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Be Your Future Self Now Summary
Be Your Future Self Now
Your brain is already placing bets on who you'll become. Why not pick the winner.
by Benjamin P. Hardy 2022 256 pages
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2k+ ratings
The Heart of Change
by John P. Kotter • 2002
Why a pile of 424 gloves did what a thousand memos couldn't.
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The Heart of Change Summary
The Heart of Change
Why a pile of 424 gloves did what a thousand memos couldn't.
by John P. Kotter 2002 224 pages
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3k+ ratings
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation
by Harvard Business Publishing • 2013
Innovation is a discipline, not genius. Systematic scans for opportunities hiding in plain sight.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation Summary
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation
Innovation is a discipline, not genius. Systematic scans for opportunities hiding in plain sight.
by Harvard Business Publishing 2013 179 pages
3.80
465 ratings
An Everyone Culture
by Robert Kegan • 2016
What if your company's real product was more capable adults, and profit was the side effect?
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An Everyone Culture Summary
An Everyone Culture
What if your company's real product was more capable adults, and profit was the side effect?
by Robert Kegan 2016 336 pages
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1k+ ratings
Leadership and Self-Deception
by The Arbinger Institute • 2000
You betray your instinct to help, then justify it. That is where every leadership failure begins.
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Leadership and Self-Deception Summary
Leadership and Self-Deception
You betray your instinct to help, then justify it. That is where every leadership failure begins.
by The Arbinger Institute 2000 240 pages
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Art of the Long View, The
by Peter Schwartz • 1991
Predicting the future is a fool's game. The smart money rehearses it instead.
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Art of the Long View, The Summary
Art of the Long View, The
Predicting the future is a fool's game. The smart money rehearses it instead.
by Peter Schwartz 1991 258 pages
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The Worry Cure
by Robert L. Leahy • 2005
You worry because you believe it protects you. Break that belief and the cycle collapses.
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The Worry Cure Summary
The Worry Cure
You worry because you believe it protects you. Break that belief and the cycle collapses.
by Robert L. Leahy 2005 336 pages
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1k+ ratings
Blueprint for Revolution
by Srdja Popovic • 2015
Rice pudding, Lego men, and the nonviolent playbook that wins twice as often as violence.
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Blueprint for Revolution Summary
Blueprint for Revolution
Rice pudding, Lego men, and the nonviolent playbook that wins twice as often as violence.
by Srdja Popovic 2015 304 pages
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2k+ ratings
Soundtracks
by Jon Acuff • 2021
Retire the mental loops that hold you back and install ones that move you forward.
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Soundtracks Summary
Soundtracks
Retire the mental loops that hold you back and install ones that move you forward.
by Jon Acuff 2021 240 pages
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10k+ ratings
Changes That Heal
by Henry Cloud • 1992
Childhood built or broke four inner capacities. Two combined forces can rebuild them in adulthood.
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Changes That Heal Summary
Changes That Heal
Childhood built or broke four inner capacities. Two combined forces can rebuild them in adulthood.
by Henry Cloud 1992
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Necessary Endings
by Henry Cloud • 2011
End the good to make room for the great: a pruning discipline for stuck lives and businesses.
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Necessary Endings Summary
Necessary Endings
End the good to make room for the great: a pruning discipline for stuck lives and businesses.
by Henry Cloud 2011 238 pages
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6k+ ratings
The Middle Passage
by James Hollis • 1993
Your midlife crisis is not a breakdown. It is the psyche evicting the false self.
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The Middle Passage Summary
The Middle Passage
Your midlife crisis is not a breakdown. It is the psyche evicting the false self.
by James Hollis 1993 127 pages
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2k+ ratings
The Demon of Unrest
by Erik Larson • 2024
Silos are structural, not personal. One shared priority can break what team building never touches.
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The Demon of Unrest Summary
The Demon of Unrest
Silos are structural, not personal. One shared priority can break what team building never touches.
by Erik Larson 2024 592 pages
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61k+ ratings
CEO Excellence
by Carolyn Dewar • 2022
The data reveals a small set of practices that separate great CEOs from everyone else.
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CEO Excellence Summary
CEO Excellence
The data reveals a small set of practices that separate great CEOs from everyone else.
by Carolyn Dewar 2022 288 pages
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1k+ ratings
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People
by Harvard Business Publishing • 2010
The ten management articles that move you from accidental boss to deliberate leader.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People Summary
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People
The ten management articles that move you from accidental boss to deliberate leader.
by Harvard Business Publishing 2010 240 pages
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1k+ ratings
Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation
by Richard Bandler • 2008
Your brain runs on outdated software. Here is the manual for a hard reset.
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Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation Summary
Richard Bandler's Guide to Trance-formation
Your brain runs on outdated software. Here is the manual for a hard reset.
by Richard Bandler 2008 368 pages
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500+ ratings
Triggers
by Marshall Goldsmith • 2015
You make great plans you never execute. More willpower won't help; a daily self-review will.
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Triggers Summary
Triggers
You make great plans you never execute. More willpower won't help; a daily self-review will.
by Marshall Goldsmith 2015 244 pages
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9k+ ratings
Master of Change
by Brad Stulberg • 2023
When everything changes, rigid identities break. How to build a self that bends without collapsing.
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Master of Change Summary
Master of Change
When everything changes, rigid identities break. How to build a self that bends without collapsing.
by Brad Stulberg 2023 233 pages
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2k+ ratings
Move Fast and Fix Things
by Frances Frei • 2023
Your speed problem is actually a trust problem. Diagnose it Monday, accelerate by Friday.
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Move Fast and Fix Things Summary
Move Fast and Fix Things
Your speed problem is actually a trust problem. Diagnose it Monday, accelerate by Friday.
by Frances Frei 2023 240 pages
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500+ ratings
The Alliance
by Reid Hoffman • 2014
Companies and workers need a new pact: finite missions that build value for both sides.
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The Alliance Summary
The Alliance
Companies and workers need a new pact: finite missions that build value for both sides.
by Reid Hoffman 2014 224 pages
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2k+ ratings
The Comfort Zone
by Kristen Butler • 2023
Stop forcing yourself out of your comfort zone. Growth thrives where you feel safe.
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The Comfort Zone Summary
The Comfort Zone
Stop forcing yourself out of your comfort zone. Growth thrives where you feel safe.
by Kristen Butler 2023 336 pages
4.01
432 ratings
Reality-Based Leadership
by Cy Wakeman • 2010
Workplace drama is self-inflicted. Why betting on your best people beats managing the unwilling.
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Reality-Based Leadership Summary
Reality-Based Leadership
Workplace drama is self-inflicted. Why betting on your best people beats managing the unwilling.
by Cy Wakeman 2010 192 pages
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1k+ ratings
Using Your Brain--For a Change
by Richard Bandler • 1985
Most people let their minds run on autopilot. Here are the tools to take the wheel.
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Using Your Brain--For a Change Summary
Using Your Brain--For a Change
Most people let their minds run on autopilot. Here are the tools to take the wheel.
by Richard Bandler 1985 165 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Feeling Great
by David D. Burns • 2020
Turn your darkest thoughts into allies and feel relief in minutes, not years.
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Feeling Great Summary
Feeling Great
Turn your darkest thoughts into allies and feel relief in minutes, not years.
by David D. Burns 2020 499 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Changing Belief Systems With NLP
by Robert B. Dilts • 1990
Why affirmations fail: the NLP toolkit for rewriting deep beliefs, not just decorating the surface.
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Changing Belief Systems With NLP Summary
Changing Belief Systems With NLP
Why affirmations fail: the NLP toolkit for rewriting deep beliefs, not just decorating the surface.
by Robert B. Dilts 1990 236 pages
4.07
206 ratings
The Technology Fallacy
by Gerald C. Kane • 2019
Tech changes in months; your company takes years. Digital transformation isn't a technology problem.
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The Technology Fallacy Summary
The Technology Fallacy
Tech changes in months; your company takes years. Digital transformation isn't a technology problem.
by Gerald C. Kane 2019 280 pages
3.98
328 ratings
Future of Management
by Gary Hamel • 1996
Product innovations get copied. Management innovations endure. Winners reinvent how work is done.
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Future of Management Summary
Future of Management
Product innovations get copied. Management innovations endure. Winners reinvent how work is done.
by Gary Hamel 1996 272 pages
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1k+ ratings
How to Change
by Katy Milkman • 2021
Impulsivity, procrastination, laziness: each has a science-backed fix that needs zero willpower.
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How to Change Summary
How to Change
Impulsivity, procrastination, laziness: each has a science-backed fix that needs zero willpower.
by Katy Milkman 2021 268 pages
3.84
7k+ ratings
Accelerate
by John P. Kotter • 2012
Your hierarchy handles today. Build a second, volunteer-run system to handle the speed of tomorrow.
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Accelerate Summary
Accelerate
Your hierarchy handles today. Build a second, volunteer-run system to handle the speed of tomorrow.
by John P. Kotter 2012 224 pages
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1k+ ratings
Scrum Mastery
by Geoff Watts • 2013
How great ScrumMasters earn trust, provoke growth, and build teams that no longer need them.
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Scrum Mastery Summary
Scrum Mastery
How great ScrumMasters earn trust, provoke growth, and build teams that no longer need them.
by Geoff Watts 2013 288 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
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