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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
by Geoffrey A. Moore
A guide for high-tech companies to successfully market and sell their products to mainstream customers.
Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible for bringing cutting-edge products to progressively larger ... (Goodreads)
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen
Examines disruptive innovation and how to manage it in a business setting.
Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership – or worse, disappear completely. And he not only proves what he ... (Goodreads)
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win
by Steve Blank
A guide for startups to achieve success by understanding customer needs, developing a customer-centric approach, and iterating through customer feedback.
The essential book for anyone bringing a product to market, writing a business plan, marketing plan or sales plan. Step-by-step strategy of how to successfully organize sales, marketing and business ... (Goodreads)
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
by Peter F. Drucker
A guide to becoming an effective executive by focusing on time management, decision-making, and prioritization.
What makes an effective executive?, The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have ... (Goodreads)
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
by Marshall Goldsmith
A guide to becoming even more successful, offering strategies for personal and professional growth.
America's most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach ... (Goodreads)
How Will You Measure Your Life?
by Clayton M. Christensen
Exploring the purpose of life through personal stories and business insights.
In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of ... (Goodreads)
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
A business novel that follows a manufacturing plant's attempts to optimize production.
Written in a fast-paced thriller style,, The Goal, is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more ... (Goodreads)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert B. Cialdini
An analysis of the psychology of persuasion and how to use it to influence people.
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding ... (Goodreads)
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
by Michael E. Porter
A guide to analyzing industries and competitors to develop effective business strategies and gain a competitive advantage.
Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy ... (Barnes & Noble)
High Output Management
by Andrew S. Grove
An essential guide to managing people and processes to achieve maximum productivity.
In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. A practical handbook for navigating real-life ... (Barnes & Noble)
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by Peter Thiel
A guide to launching a startup, exploring the power of entrepreneurship.
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, ... (Goodreads)
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
by Michael E. Gerber
A guide to harnessing the power of entrepreneurial thinking to create a thriving small business.
E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work ... (Goodreads)
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries
Systematic approach to launching and managing successful businesses in an ever-changing market.
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. ... (Goodreads)
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
A guide to improving efficiency and productivity through better organization.
The book, Lifehack, calls ,"The Bible of business and personal productivity.","A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from 'the personal productivity guru'",—,Fast ... (Barnes & Noble)
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham
Analysis of top managers to uncover the secrets of their success.
Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in First, Break All the Rules, revealing what the world’s greatest managers do differently. With vital ... (Goodreads)
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz
A practical guide to navigating the challenges of building and leading a successful business, with insights from a seasoned entrepreneur.
Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for ... (Barnes & Noble)
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
Collection of stories from some of the greatest entrepreneurs, sharing their journey and experiences as founders.
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are ... (Goodreads)
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Patrick Lencioni
An exploration of the dynamics of team-building, and how to overcome five common pitfalls.
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and ... (Goodreads)
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler
An exploration of the principles of behavioral economics and its implications for society.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Get ready to change the way you think about economics., Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central ... (Barnes & Noble)
Rework
by Jason Fried
A guide to starting and running a successful business with unconventional advice and practical tips.
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf. ... (Goodreads)
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A critical examination of the impact of randomness/chance in life and financial markets.
Fooled by Randomness, is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a ... (Goodreads)
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
by Tim Brown
A guide to using design thinking to drive innovation and change within organizations.
The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas ... (Goodreads)
The 4-Hour Workweek
by Timothy Ferriss
A guide to creating a lifestyle of financial and personal freedom by optimizing work and lifestyle.
What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: "I race motorcycles in Europe." "I ... (Goodreads)
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
A guide to creating intuitive, user-friendly websites.
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and ... (Goodreads)
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull
An exploration of the principles and strategies that drive success in the creative process.
“What does it mean to manage well?” From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business—sure to appeal to ... (Goodreads)
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by James C. Collins
Analysis of successful companies and their long-term strategies, identifying key habits and practices that lead to enduring success.
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. ... (Goodreads)
The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
An exploration of the science of genetics and its implications for humanity.
Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene ... (Goodreads)
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
by Richard P. Rumelt
A guide to creating effective strategies by identifying and overcoming common pitfalls. Practical advice for leaders and managers.
Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying, too many, strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world Developing and ... (Goodreads)
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
An exploration of why humans make irrational decisions, and how to overcome them.
Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't ... (Goodreads)
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
by Richard Koch
Achieve more with less effort by focusing on the 20% of activities that yield 80% of results.
How anyone can be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle–the well-known, unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in business and ... (Goodreads)
