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10 Books Like How the Mighty Fall That Hit the Same Nerve
You finished How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins and want the same energy: Decline is a staged disease: hubris → overreach → denial → grasping → death. It's self-inflicted, detectable, … Here are 10 more that scratch the same itch, each with a free chapter-by-chapter breakdown, key lessons and action steps on this shelf.
Arise, Awake
Ten stories of Indian student entrepreneurs who built real companies while still in college, with the honest warts: failure, family pressure and raw inexperience.
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$100M Leads
You don't have a sales problem, you have a leads problem. Master the Core Four and give away the good stuff until people beg to pay you.
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Black Box Thinking
Aviation treats every failure as data and got massively safer; healthcare and other blame cultures bury errors and repeat them. Open-loop learning, honest postmortems, marginal gains, that is the whole engine of progress.
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Blitzscaling
Sometimes speed is the strategy: grow faster than feels comfortable, and let the problems of scale replace the problem of irrelevance.
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Built to Last
Visionary companies are built on core ideology + BHAGs + cult-like culture - and clock-building, not time-telling.
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Good to Great
Good is the enemy of great. The leap comes from humble fanatic leaders, the right people first, brutal facts, and one big hedgehog idea.
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Great by Choice
Great companies don't predict the future - they prepare for it: consistent marches, cheap bullets, and fanatic discipline.
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High Output Management
A manager's output = the output of their team. Leverage, meetings, and performance reviews done right - the Grove way.
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Sam Walton: Made in America
Retail isn't about being smartest - it's about being cheapest, fastest and friendliest, and never stopping.
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Shoe Dog
Nike was one cash-flow crisis from death for fifteen straight years. The Crazy Idea survived on nerve, misfits, and just doing it.
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