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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as operations)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,032 ratings — published 1984
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as operations)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,566 ratings — published 2013
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Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as operations)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,847 ratings — published
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as operations)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,107 ratings — published 2006
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Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as operations)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,071 ratings — published 1996
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Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as operations)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,921 ratings — published 2021
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High Output Management High Output Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as operations)
avg rating 4.29 — 22,476 ratings — published 1983
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as operations)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,847 ratings — published 2009
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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition) Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as operations)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,286 ratings — published 2014
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It's Not Luck It's Not Luck (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as operations)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,232 ratings — published 1994
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The Search The Search (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as operations)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,146 ratings — published 2010
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Measure What Matters Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as operations)
avg rating 3.98 — 40,053 ratings — published 2017
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The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as operations)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,011 ratings — published 2015
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Toyota Production System: Beyond large-scale production Toyota Production System: Beyond large-scale production (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as operations)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,127 ratings — published 1978
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Operations Management Operations Management (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as operations)
avg rating 3.83 — 633 ratings — published 2001
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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as operations)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,836 ratings — published 2003
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as operations)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,260 ratings — published 1957
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as operations)
avg rating 4.24 — 107,386 ratings — published 2015
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Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,913 ratings — published 2007
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Protect and Defend (Mitch Rapp, #10) Protect and Defend (Mitch Rapp, #10)
by (shelved 5 times as operations)
avg rating 4.36 — 45,860 ratings — published 2007
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Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 16,521 ratings — published 2015
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Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,353 ratings — published
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Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,354 ratings — published
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The E-myth Revisited The E-myth Revisited
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.07 — 102,364 ratings — published 1985
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,583 ratings — published 2008
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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,977 ratings — published 2016
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.19 — 117,110 ratings — published 2014
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 79,173 ratings — published 2013
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Continuous delivery Continuous delivery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,324 ratings — published 2010
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,023,051 ratings — published 2010
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Black Ops (Presidential Agent, #5) Black Ops (Presidential Agent, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,160 ratings — published 2008
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Devil's Keep (Bravo Cell One Nine, #1) Devil's Keep (Bravo Cell One Nine, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 3.84 — 340 ratings — published 2010
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By Order of the President (Presidential Agent, #1) By Order of the President (Presidential Agent, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,913 ratings — published 2004
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Bravo Two Zero Bravo Two Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 16,744 ratings — published 1991
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SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.21 — 776 ratings — published
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.17 — 30,260 ratings — published 2006
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Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,107 ratings — published 2018
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The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.08 — 50,653 ratings — published 2010
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.12 — 317,233 ratings — published 2001
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Necessary But Not Sufficient Necessary But Not Sufficient (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.10 — 728 ratings — published 2000
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,054 ratings — published
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Critical Chain Critical Chain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,246 ratings — published 1997
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Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,288 ratings — published 2007
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Crooked Little Vein Crooked Little Vein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,873 ratings — published 2007
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The Shooters (Presidential Agent, #4) The Shooters (Presidential Agent, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,615 ratings — published
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Dead or Alive (Jack Ryan Jr, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #13) Dead or Alive (Jack Ryan Jr, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #13)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 3.93 — 21,049 ratings — published 2010
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 3.87 — 47,442 ratings — published 2011
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Wraith Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing, #5) Wraith Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,265 ratings — published 1998
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Lola Carlyle Reveals All Lola Carlyle Reveals All (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as operations)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,920 ratings — published 2002
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith
“Ignore minor operational friction long enough, and it will eventually solidify into structural problems that could devour the entire enterprise value.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework

Sara Sheridan
“It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one’s judgement.”
― Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle

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