Business & Entrepreneurship

Playbooks for building companies, products and enduring strategy.

10 books

Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne · 2005

How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant.

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Strategy

Built to Last

Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras · 1994

Successful habits of visionary companies, drawn from a six-year research project.

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Strategy

Good to Great

Jim Collins · 2001

Why some companies make the leap to greatness and others don't.

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Business Memoir

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight · 2016

Nike's founder tells the story of building the company from a $50 loan.

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Leadership

Start with Why

Simon Sinek · 2009

How great leaders inspire action by starting with why.

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Small Business

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber · 1995

Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it.

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Management

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz · 2014

Honest advice on the hardest problems of running a company.

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Innovation

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen · 1997

How disruptive technologies cause great firms to fail.

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Startups

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries · 2011

Build-measure-learn: how startups use continuous innovation to find a sustainable business.

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Startups

Zero to One

Peter Thiel · 2014

Notes on startups, or how to build the future by going from zero to one.

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