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[Verse 1]
Before you tear the system down, you've got to know the ground
So Doerr's "Measure What Matters" is where wisdom can be found
Learn the canonical model, see how OKRs were born
Understanding what exists before you sound the reform horn

[Chorus]
Six books to build your knowledge base
Scott and Doerr will set the pace
Marquet turns ships, Hastings breaks chains
McChrystal's teams, Muller explains
Read them all to see the cracks
Between the theory and the facts

[Verse 2]
James Scott in "Seeing Like a State" reveals the planners' curse
How legibility destroys what makes complex systems work
High-modernist schemes that look so clean on paper maps
Create the very chaos that they promised to collapse

[Chorus]
Six books to build your knowledge base
Scott and Doerr will set the pace
Marquet turns ships, Hastings breaks chains
McChrystal's teams, Muller explains
Read them all to see the cracks
Between the theory and the facts

[Verse 3]
"Turn the Ship Around!" shows Marquet's submarine command
From leader-follower to leader-leader, taking a stand
Autonomy in action when you push decisions down
The nuclear navy proves that hierarchy can come around

[Bridge]
Netflix says "Context not control" in Hastings' rulebook tale
While Muller warns that metric gods will make your culture fail
These authors paint a clearer view of where the problems hide
When measurement becomes the master instead of the guide

[Verse 4]
McChrystal's "Team of Teams" transformed the military machine
Decentralized decisions in the most rigid system seen
While Muller's "Tyranny" dissects the metric fixation trap
These six perspectives help you bridge the implementation gap

[Chorus]
Six books to build your knowledge base
Scott and Doerr will set the pace
Marquet turns ships, Hastings breaks chains
McChrystal's teams, Muller explains
Read them all to see the cracks
Between the theory and the facts

[Outro]
Foundation built on solid ground
Critique with wisdom, safe and sound

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