Small Giants

By Bo Burlingham

About Small Giants

Bo Burlingham examines companies that pursue excellence without treating endless expansion as the only measure of success. The selection extends leadership into questions of organizational purpose.

This belongs in the enterprise companions to the leadership collection and is cross-linked from AI, Business & Productivity.

Why I include it

I include this book for its perspective on building companies with purpose and discipline. Read this with the enterprise companions to the leadership collection to examine purpose, scale, and responsibility in business.

Collection 07 · Related reading

Political Leadership & Civic Duty

Read this with the enterprise companions to the leadership collection to examine purpose, scale, and responsibility in business.

What to look for while reading

Ask how a business defines enough, what it owes to employees and its community, and which tradeoffs follow from its chosen scale.

Perspective & context

I brought these books together to compare perspectives and develop judgment. No single author has the final word.

Key themes

Political Leadership & Civic Duty
Building companies with purpose and discipline
Nonfiction

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Praise & Reviews

“Small is the new big. If that feels like an offbeat idea to you, you need this book!”
— Seth Godin

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