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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
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Include books by the same authorWhat It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman · 400 pages
Sam Walton: Made In America
Sam Walton, John Huey · 272 pages
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achie
I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Ken Langone · 320 pages
Made In Japan: Akio Morita And Sony
Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura · 352 pages
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
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
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
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.
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
Iacocca: An Autobiography
Lee Iacocca, William Novak · 365 pages
He's an American legend, the tough-talking, straight-shooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, a newsmaker, and a man many have urged to run for President. Now Lee Iacocca opens his personal files on an extraordinary life of survival and triumph in Iacocca -- the outspoken, headline-making autobiography of a man who has come to repre
Jack: Straight from the Gut
Jack Welch, John A. Byrne, Mike Barnicle · 487 pages
Simply Fly
G.R. Gopinath · 380 pages
Autobiography of G.R. Gopinath, b. 1951, founder of Air Deccan, India's first low-cost airline.
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
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz · 372 pages
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz · 289 pages
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Ricardo Semler · 333 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
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
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
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.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras · 355 pages
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor even is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies." So write James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras in this groundbreaking book