FEATURED
The books, ideas, and people we keep coming back to.
READING LIST
Books we recommend.
BOOK . 01
Profit from the Core
Chris Zook & James Allen
On finding the next adjacency without abandoning the business that fed you.
BOOK . 02
The Founder's Mentality
Chris Zook & James Allen
Why insurgent thinking and frontline obsession outlast scale advantages.
BOOK . 03
Repeatability
Chris Zook & James Allen
Building durable advantage through codified, replicable models.
BOOK . 04
Good to Great
Jim Collins
The disciplined choices that turn good companies into enduring ones.
BOOK . 05
The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike
Eight unconventional CEOs and the capital-allocation playbook behind their returns.
BOOK . 06
High Output Management
Andy Grove
Still the clearest book ever written on operational leadership.
READING LIST
People and organizations we believe deserve a wider audience.
Mercer Foundry Co.
SPOTLIGHT . 01
For rebuilding a 90-year-old manufacturing line without losing a single shift of throughput.
Dr. Elena Park
SPOTLIGHT . 02
For shipping a clinical trial protocol that other teams now reference as the standard.
Northbound Logistics
SPOTLIGHT . 03
For a frontline operating model that turned attrition from crisis to competitive moat.
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