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Rework

Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 279 pages

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.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the c

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries · 328 pages

"Most startups are built to fail. But those failures, according to entrepreneur Eric Ries, are preventable. Startups don't fail because of bad execution, or missed deadlines, or blown budgets. They fail because they are building something nobody wants. Whether they arise from someone's garage or are created within a mature Fortune 500 organization, new ventures, by definition, are designed to crea

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Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't

Verne Harnish · 256 pages

In this guide, Harnish and his co-authors share practical tools and techniques to help entrepreneurs grow an industry -- dominating business without it killing them -- and actually have fun. Many growth company leaders reach a point where they actually dread adding another customer, employee, or location. It feels like they are just adding more weight to an ever-heavier anchor they are dragging th

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#GIRLBOSS

Sophia Amoruso · 248 pages

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Business Model Generation

Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur · 288 pages

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The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss · 308 pages

The New York Times bestselling how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success and replacing them with a whole new way of living Tim Ferriss has trouble defining what he does for a living. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:'I race motorcycles in Europe' 'I ski in the Andes' 'I scuba dive in Panama' 'I

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Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly · 301 pages

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How Google Works

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg · 303 pages

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Peter F. Drucker · 288 pages

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Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rule-breakers, and Changemakers

Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo · 266 pages

"This book includes more than 80 games to help you break down barriers, communicate better, and generate new ideas, insights, and strategies. The authors have identified tools and techniques from some of the world's most innovative professionals, whose teams collaborate and make great things happen. Gamestorming is the result: a unique collection of games that encourage engagement and creativity w

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Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

Geoffrey A. Moore, Regis McKenna · 227 pages

Crossing the Chasm (1991; rev. 1999) demonstrates the existence of distinct marketing challenges for each market segment in the life cycle of new technology-based products. A significant gulf -- the "chasm" -- exists between the market made up of early adopters and the markets of more pragmatic buyers. To cross the chasm, a product team must identify the needs of pragmatic buyers and deliver a "wh

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Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson · 631 pages

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years -- as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues -- Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industrie

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Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

Ashlee Vance · 396 pages

In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs -- a real-life Tony Stark -- and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers." Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned

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The E-myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber · 269 pages

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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford · 345 pages

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the third book by Gene Kim. The business novel tells the story of an IT manager who has ninety days to rescue an over-budget and late IT initiative, code-named The Phoenix Project.

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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

James C. Collins, Morten T. Hansen · 320 pages

The new question. Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for buildin

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