I would put a vote for Google's SRE book [0]. While it was originally published by O'Reilly[1], to the best of my knowledge, the authors were all SRE Googlers who were paid for their time working on it. Some very good war stories and advice there.<p>[0] <a href="https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/" rel="nofollow">https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/</a>
[1] <a href="https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/site-reliability-engineering/9781491929117/" rel="nofollow">https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/site-reliability-e...</a>
Moore Tool Company -- manufacturer of some of the machines that NIST uses to measure stuff[1] -- published a book called Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy that's pretty good: <a href="https://archive.org/details/FoundationsOfMechanicalAccuracy/mode/1up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/FoundationsOfMechanicalAccuracy/...</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/09/meet-bob-pmls-second-primary-coordinate-measuring-machine" rel="nofollow">https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/09/meet-bob-pmls-...</a>
For the home cycle mechanic Park Tools make a good guide book which utilises their products.<p><a href="https://www.parktool.com/en-int/product/big-blue-book-of-bicycle-repair-4th-edition-bbb-4" rel="nofollow">https://www.parktool.com/en-int/product/big-blue-book-of-bic...</a>
I don't know if this answers matches the question but, could be interesting anyway: My take would be the book that Jobs received on NeXT and it's logo. Granted, it was not "by a company about itself", but, rather, "about a company by an agency". Still ...
The books by 37 signals (Rework) come to mind: <a href="https://37signals.com/books/" rel="nofollow">https://37signals.com/books/</a><p>Especially "It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work" - directions towards greater productivity through greater QoL and not in the Silicon Valley Nursery Color Complex way.
I'll go off topic to documentaries where the hustlers did themselves -<p>"Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" was made by the Fyre Fest people.<p>Similarly the hilarious tech failure "Riot On!" was made by themselves. The director was a pseudonym.<p>A bit more on topic but meta it's interesting the US military has sent historians to current engagements since WW2 - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_detachment" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_detachment</a>