Books and practical guides
Books about management, entrepreneurship, technology and building organizations, based on more than three decades of practical experience.
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How Management Teams Eliminate Waste Through Better Decisions
Management is not a title. It is a professional system for making better decisions about the future of a company.
Modern Lean Management explains how management teams can replace individual decision-making, departmental politics and repeated meetings with a disciplined process built around evidence, consensus, accountability and continuous improvement.
Free Digital Edition
Complete first edition, 243 pages, including all management
templates and practical tools.
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Upcoming series
The No BS series distills more than thirty years of building startups, products, technology companies and global ventures into direct and practical guides.
These are not mechanical step-by-step manuals written from the outside. They explain why decisions matter, what commonly goes wrong, and what founders and managers can learn from both success and failure.
Each book focuses on clear action, practical judgment and cutting through the myths, fashionable advice and snake oil surrounding business and technology.
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In editing
A practical guide to the complete entrepreneurial journey.
From identifying an opportunity and shaping yourself as a founder to building the company, raising capital, managing growth and eventually exiting.
The book combines direct guidance with lessons from Mattias Bergström's own successes, mistakes, pivots and decades of building technology ventures.
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Planned
How founders should actually approach investors, prepare a raise, understand valuation, negotiate ownership and work with angels, venture funds and strategic investors.
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Planned
How established organizations can use artificial intelligence to solve real problems and produce measurable value rather than expensive demonstrations and internal theatre.
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Planned
What changes when a startup begins to scale, why growth often becomes the company's greatest risk, and how founders move from building a product to building a capable organization.
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Planned
How useful innovation actually happens, how organizations identify real opportunities, and why many corporate innovation programs produce activity without creating valuable products or businesses.
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