[1/2] A collection of interesting stories about large companies that I mentioned earlier (Category BusinessStory)

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of books about different companies, their strategies and approaches to success and failure. In the end, I decided to collect a selection of what I read. I broke the list by country of origin of companies - as it turned out, I read more stories about American companies than about others.

American companies

• Google Book Review: How Google Works ("How Google Works.") - interesting history from Eric Schmidt (ex CEO Google) and Jonathan Rosenberg. (ex VP Google) decade-old
• Microsoft "Hit Refresh" - Conceptual book Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
• Amazon Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (Amazon Strategy.) An interesting story from former Amazon tops about their approaches in three parts: 1, 2 and 3
• Amazon Invent and Wander is a collaborative book. book Jeff Bezos and Walter Isaacson, author of popular biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and others. However, Jeff's annual letters to shareholders are mostly his.
• MIPS and Stanford - Leadership Principles. ("Leading Matters") - book John Hennessy, co-founder of MIPS Corporation, rector of Stanford University)Turing Prize winner and chairman of the board of directors of Alphabet. In this book, he talks about his leadership principles.
• Cisco - The book "Combining the Dots." Leadership lessons” ("Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World") - story John Chambers, who 20 He was the CEO of Cisco and previously worked at IBM and Wang Laboratories. He’s actually talking about Cisco.
• Facebook Book Review: Facebook: The Inside Story (The Social Network That Changed the World) Interesting and fairly recent history A social network banned in Russia. The story is interesting and quite deep.
• Youtube Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination (YouTube. How did the most popular video hosting company conquer the world?) An interesting story about the development of YouTube. Very interesting story in several parts: 1, 2 and 3.
• Uber Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber ("Battle for Uber.") - very dynamic and entertaining history An economy that has only recently become profitable
• Netflix No Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention ("No Rules") - book from Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer on Neflix’s corporate culture. This book is quite interesting about the original company,
• Bridgewater Associates - Principles. ("Principles.") - conceptual book Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates
• Intel "Only the Paranoid Survive" ("Only the paranoid survive.") - book Andy Grove, ex-CEO of Intel, who once created MBO (management by objective) And then it evolved into OKR. In this book, he ponders how to handle crises in a useful way ... which would be very useful to the current Intel.
• Intel "Made at Intel" is an interesting book. book Valery Cherepennikov with a set of stories about Intel
• Theranos The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley ("Inventor. Bloodlust in Silicon Valley) - history Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes
• Roivant Sciences Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam ("Woke, Inc. Behind the facade of corporate rhetoric about social justice) - in short. story forward Western capitalism

Continuation of the compilation in next post.

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