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Simply Fly
G.R. Gopinath · 380 pages
Autobiography of G.R. Gopinath, b. 1951, founder of Air Deccan, India's first low-cost airline.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh · 253 pages
Tony Hsieh--the widely-admired CEO of on-line shoe retailer, Zappos--explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of its employees, customers, vendors and backers. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Lawrence Levy · 272 pages
"After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple in the early 1990's, while building his failed competitor NeXT, he made a side bet to develop a little-known, barely profitable video graphics company called Pixar. One day, out of the blue, Jobs called Lawrence Levy, a Harvard-trained attorney, in the hope that Jobs could somehow persuade Levy to join forces with him in his quest to energ
Alibaba's World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business
Porter Erisman
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
Karen Blumenthal · 310 pages
From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniak. Then came the core and hallmark of his genius--his exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed al
Principles
Ray Dalio · 592 pages
Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing everything to run like a machine — which can then be fine-tuned.
Nunca Pares : Autobiografía Del Fundador de Nike / Shoe Dog
Phil Knight · 432 pages
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
Life Is Good: The Book
Bert and John Jacobs, John Jacobs
Simple life lessons from two brothers who discovered the true meaning of success. From Life is Good founders and brothers Bert and John Jacobs, this inspiring book of wisdom celebrates the power of optimism: the driving force behind their beloved, socially conscious clothing and lifestyle brand, now worth more than $100 million. Following the chronology of their personal and professional journeys,
Sir Richard Branson: The Autobiography
Richard Branson · 112 pages
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Bo Burlingham · 268 pages
It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do . . . creating a great place to work . . . providing great customer service . . . making great contributions to their
Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business
Bruce Poon Tip · 304 pages
Bruce Poon Tip's extraordinary first-person account of his entrepreneurial instincts to start and develop G Adventures, a highly-successful international travel adventure company. Also includes his unusual management secrets that not only keep his employees fully engaged but also keep his customers extremely happy.
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard · 266 pages
The long-awaited memoir/manifesto from legendary climber, businessman, and environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of one of the world's most inspiring companies, Patagonia, Inc.Whether you care about adventure sports, the fate of the natural world, or pure brand maintenance and business success, Patagonia, Inc. is one of the earth's most interesting and inspiring companies. For almost
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
I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Ken Langone · 320 pages
So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story
Tony Magee · 216 pages
"The first-person account of Tony Magee's gut-wrenching challenges and heart-warming successes in founding Lagunitas Brewing Company. In just 20 years, the company has grown from a seat-of-the-pants, one-man operation to be the fifth largest--and the fastest-growing--craft brewer in the United States. This equal part memoir, narrative, and business story is an illuminating yet hilarious account an
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon · 368 pages
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz · 289 pages
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Michael Lewis · 268 pages
" ... describes a vast paradigm shift in American culture: a shift away from conventional business models and definitions of success, and toward a new way of thinking about the world and our control over it. The rules of American capitalism--how money is raised, how the spoils are divided--have been drastically rewritten according to a single entrepreneur's vision of the future of the Internet ...
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson · 218 pages
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food service automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising have earned him a place beside the men who founded not merely businesses but entire new industries. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business legend is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical se
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur · 288 pages