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Every book Lane Shackleton recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Lane Shackleton has recommended or discussed 7 books on podcasts, as of October 1, 2023.
- Lane Shackleton has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of October 1, 2023.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of October 1, 2023.
- The 3 books Lane Shackleton has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 1, 2023: Endurance, Good Strategy, Bad Strategy and Storyworthy.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Lane Shackleton aired on October 1, 2023.
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Lane Shackleton’s most recommended books
- Endurance by Alfred Lansing
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt
- Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
- The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
- Turning the Flywheel by Jim Collins
- Waking Up by Sam Harris
- Working Backwards by Colin Bryar
Lane Shackleton appeared on Lenny's Podcast to discuss what sets great teams apart and share the books that inspired him. He recommended Alfred Lansing's Endurance as an inspiring Antarctic story about putting people first, and praised Matthew Dicks's Storyworthy as a practical guide to storytelling. Shackleton also pointed listeners to Colin Bryar and Bill Carr's Working Backwards to learn about Amazon's six-pager memo ritual. In addition, he recommended Jim Collins's Turning the Flywheel for a succinct overview of how flywheels operate, Richard P. Rumelt's Good Strategy, Bad Strategy for its reusable framework, Sam Harris's Waking Up as a resource on mindfulness, and W. Timothy Gallwey's classic The Inner Game of Tennis.
Books Lane Shackleton recommended or discussed
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Endurance
Recommended“in high school we read endurance uh which is a great book if you haven't read it it's an amazing story basically you know very inspiring how he put people first and brought back all of his men from this journey to the South Pole”
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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
Recommended“good strategy bad strategy love that book very simple framework that I've reused a bunch maybe outside of tech uh waking up is a book by Sam Harris on mindfulness that I really like”
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Storyworthy
Recommended“there's a book called story worthy that I really like I was just going to mention that that book is so good somebody mentioned this on the podcast and as I read it's like the most useful practical book for how to tell stories”
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The Inner Game of Tennis
Recommended“and then an old one that I really like is the inner game of tennis by Timothy gway um which is a kind of classic amazing”
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Turning the Flywheel
Recommended“uh one that comes to mind is turning the flywheel it's a little manuscript book Jim Collins wrote it it's really I think a very succinct and very fast read about how flywheels work”
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Waking Up
Recommended“uh waking up is a book by Sam Harris on mindfulness that I really like and then an old one that I really like is the inner game of tennis by Timothy gway”
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Working Backwards
Recommended“and what that did was kind of started in Earnest their six pager ritual say you can read all about this in the book working backwards really good really good book Colin Brier's book”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda) | Lenny's Podcast | 2023-10-01 | 9 |






