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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
Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business
Meg Mateo Ilasco · 160 pages
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur · 288 pages
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus, Alan Jolis · 289 pages
The founder of the Grameen Bank relates how he developed the system of micro-credit to help eradicate poverty in countries such as Bangladesh by providing financial education and small loans to rural families.
Let's Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should
David Gaughran · 220 pages
No One Succeeds Alone: Learn Everything You Can from Everyone You Can
Robert Reffkin · 240 pages
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
John Wood · 278 pages
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work—not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s—but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had t
Simply Fly
G.R. Gopinath · 380 pages
Autobiography of G.R. Gopinath, b. 1951, founder of Air Deccan, India's first low-cost airline.
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
Tina Seelig · 195 pages
Major life transitions such as leaving the protected environment of school or starting a new career can be daunting. It is scary to face a wall of choices, knowing that no one is going to tell us whether or not we are making the right decision. There is no clearly delineated path or recipe for success. Even figuring out how and where to start can be a challenge. That is, until now.As executive dir
Driven: An Autobiography
Larry H. Miller, Doug Robinson · 343 pages
Written during the months before his death, Miller tells his inspiring story, sharing lessons--painful as well as joyful lessons--he has learned from his experiences. Includes a moving foreword by Utah Jazz great John Stockton and an epilogue written by Gail Miller, Larry's wife.
Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch
Lucie B. Amundsen · 328 pages
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
David Bornstein · 336 pages
"What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes David Bornstein, the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up - and remake the world for the better." "How to Change the World tells the stories of these individuals - many in the United States, others in countries from Brazil to
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
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Phil Knight · 304 pages
"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone · 224 pages
"Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career. THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positiv
How to Make a Living with Your Writing: Books, Blogging and More
Joanna Penn · 244 pages
How to Blog for Profit without Selling Your Soul
Ruth Soukup · 210 pages
If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails: And Other Lessons I Learned from My Mom
Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield · 288 pages