Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building

Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe, delivers a practical and empathetic guide to company building and scaling people. Drawing from her experience helping Stripe grow from 200 to 7,000+ employees, this 2023 bestseller includes over 100 pages of templates and worksheets for founders and leaders.

Tribal Leadership

Explores stages of human interaction in scaling companies. Helps set up successful team dynamics.

Scaling Teams: Strategies for Building Successful Teams and Organizations

A practical guide by Alexander Grosse and David Loftesness for leaders managing teams between 10 and 150 people. This O'Reilly book provides actionable strategies for hiring, management, organization design, culture, and communication during rapid growth.

The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

A tactical, no-nonsense guide to building and scaling companies from Silicon Valley's most sought-after CEO coach. Matt Mochary shares the systems, processes, and leadership tools he uses to coach CEOs at companies like Coinbase, Reddit, Brex, and OpenAI.

Empowered

Empowered provides founders leadership lessons on organizational design to empower product teams for autonomous decision-making and effective team building in scaling companies. Key principles include outcome-focused trios, coaching models, and product operating models for high-velocity innovation. Vs High Output Management, it emphasizes distributed leadership and team empowerment over centralized control.

Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors

Practical manual for founders on boards: selection, meetings, leveraging for success during scaling.