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John Cutler Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies, Geoffrey West

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

Geoffrey West
John CutlerJohn Cutler

@viktorcessan I forget, have you read Geoffrey West's "Scale" ?

Paperback, 2018

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership, Bill Walsh

The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Bill Walsh
John CutlerJohn Cutler

@jakesaper @jakecadams @Amplitude_HQ I love this One thing to consider is that the North Star moving is an *output* of focusing on the meaningful inputs that matter. A sorta Bill Walsh "focus on the game, and the score takes care of itself". It really is the interplay of inputs and NS metric

Paperback, 2010

$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems, Barry Johnson

Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

Barry Johnson
John CutlerJohn Cutler

“Every day we waste energy and create pain from misdiagnosing a paradox and treating it as a problem to solve and then fighting over the two poles.” Barry Johnson Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

Paperback, 1996

$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: My Blood Runs Crimson: Just because you can doesn't mean you should., Perrie Patterson

My Blood Runs Crimson: Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Perrie Patterson
John CutlerJohn Cutler

lots of teams are lured into the ability to customize Jira to do whatever it can do... but you always run the risk of shipping your org chart and your tools... use enabling constraints wisely. just because you *can* doesn't mean you *should*

Paperback, 2021

$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan

Images of Organization

Gareth Morgan
John CutlerJohn Cutler

“Evolution involves the survival of the fitting, not just the survival of the fittest” “Collaboration is often as common as competition” Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan https://t.co/jOzJ3yfxbo

Paperback, 2006

$151.00Member price:$143.45 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text, Dante

Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text

Dante
John CutlerJohn Cutler

I just make them up. The Orange Juice Method The Theory of Pickles and Cucumbers 5 Focusing Questions Amazon's 7 Pager (the forgotten method) DOH-KRs Discovery Ouija Board Framework Dante's Inferno (7 level Customer Pain Framework) Violinists, Cellists, and Bassists https://t.co/sICdogtxc2

Paperback, 2021

$11.99Member price:$11.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)