Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal and Flexible Approach to Innovation for the 21st Century

The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen · 340 pages

"Some people are just natural innovators, right? With no apparent effort, they discover ideas for new products, services, and entire businesses. It may look like innovators are born, not made. But according to Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen, anyone can become more innovative. How? Master the discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers. In The I

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

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

W. Chan Kim · 240 pages

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Adam M. Grant · 336 pages

""Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world."--Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outliers and The Tipping Point "Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful

Makers: The New Industrial Revolution

Chris Anderson

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters · 224 pages

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 , legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological st

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Peter F. Drucker · 288 pages

Poke the Box

Seth Godin

Business Model Generation

Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur · 288 pages

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

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

Clayton M. Christensen · 286 pages

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

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

Tim Brown

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler · 328 pages

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

Made In Japan: Akio Morita And Sony

Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura · 352 pages

Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries

Peter Sims · 224 pages

In "Little Bets", leading business consultant Peter Sims turns problems on their heads and outlines a counter-intuitive path to perfection using negativity to positive effect.

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

Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove · 224 pages

The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success

Eric Jorgenson · 371 pages

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

Dan Senor, Saul Singer · 320 pages

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Jessica Livingston · 482 pages

Presents the profiles of the founders of thirty-two start-up technology companies, discussing how their ideas originated, the obstacles thay overcame to make their companies grow into successful ventures, and the influence that many of these companies have on the Internet culture.

The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future

Steve Case · 240 pages

Steve Case, co-founder of America Online (AOL) and one of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs, shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology. We are entering, he explains, a new paradigm called the "Third Wave" of the Internet. The first wave saw AOL and other companies lay the foundation for consumers to connect to the Internet. The second wave saw co

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

Guy Kawasaki · 226 pages

A new product, a new service, a new division, a new anything—where there's a will, here's the way