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Include books by the same authorCompetitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Michael E. Porter · 557 pages
The author shows executives how to evaluate their company's own competitive position and take action to create a sustained competitive advantage.
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Richard Koch · 288 pages
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
Noam Wasserman · 480 pages
The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night
Jeffrey E. Garten · 320 pages
Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success
Lisa Endlich · 336 pages
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim · 240 pages
Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case
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
The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Philip M. Rosenzweig · 256 pages
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter F. Drucker · 288 pages
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur · 288 pages
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.
Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term
David Cote · 292 pages
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm
Verne Harnish · 176 pages
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
James C. Collins · 300 pages
Answers to commonly asked questions about how good-to-great principles can help social sector organizations make the leap to greatness, using interviews with over 100 social sector leaders.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis · 318 pages
"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." ―Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur basebal
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Dan Roam · 288 pages
A bold new way to tackle tough business problems—even if you draw like a second graderWhen Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and-spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Three arrows to show direct flights. Problem solved, and the picture made it easy to sell Southwest Airlines to investors and
Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
John Warrillow · 153 pages
The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company
Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy · 250 pages
"What makes Nordstrom so special? What, exactly, does this retail giant do that so clearly distinguishes it from the competition? How does the Nordstrom customer service culture work? And, most important, what lessons can industry learn from Nordstrom's example?". "In The Nordstrom Way, the authors isolate practical lessons that teach how to better respond to customers' needs so they'll keep comi
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath, Dan Heath · 325 pages
The four principles that can help us to overcome our brains' natural biases to make better, more informed decisions – in our lives, careers, families and organizations. In Decisive, Chip Heath and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Made to Stick and Switch, tackle the thorny problem of how to overcome our natural biases and irrational thinking to make better decisions, about our work, lives,
Organizational Theory, Design, and Change
Gareth R. Jones · 521 pages
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
Stephen M.R. Covey · 384 pages
This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO Covey informs readers how to inspire lasting trust in their personal and professional relationships, and in