Career And Business

33 summaries

Blue Ocean Strategy

How to create uncontested market space and make competition irrelevant

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne · 4 min read

Built to Last

Successful habits of visionary companies

Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · 5 min read

Company of One

Why staying small is the next big thing for business

Paul Jarvis · 5 min read

Creativity, Inc.

Overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration

Ed Catmull · 5 min read

Crossing the Chasm

Marketing and selling disruptive products to mainstream customers

Geoffrey A. Moore · 5 min read

Hooked

How to build habit-forming products

Nir Eyal · 5 min read

Lean Analytics

Use data to build a better startup faster

Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz · 5 min read

Principles

Life and work principles that shape successful careers

Ray Dalio · 5 min read

Rework

Change the way you work forever

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · 5 min read

Scale

The universal laws of growth, innovation, sustainability, and the pace of life

Geoffrey West · 5 min read

Shoe Dog

A memoir by the creator of Nike

Phil Knight · 5 min read

Sprint

How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days

Jake Knapp · 5 min read

The $100 Startup

Reinvent the way you make a living, do what you love

Chris Guillebeau · 5 min read

The Alliance

Managing talent in the networked age

Reid Hoffman · 5 min read

The E-Myth Revisited

Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it

Michael E. Gerber · 6 min read

The First 90 Days

Critical success strategies for new leaders at all levels

Michael D. Watkins · 5 min read

The Founder's Dilemmas

Anticipating and avoiding the pitfalls that can sink a startup

Noam Wasserman · 4 min read

The Lean Startup

How today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create successful businesses

Eric Ries · 5 min read

The Personal MBA

Master the art of business without the cost of business school

Josh Kaufman · 4 min read

The Phoenix Project

A novel about IT, DevOps, and helping your business win

Gene Kim · 5 min read

The Power of Broke

How empty pockets, a tight budget, and a hunger for success can become your greatest competitive advantage

Daymond John · 4 min read

The Third Wave

An entrepreneur's vision of the future

Steve Case · 5 min read

Traction

How any startup can achieve explosive customer growth

Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares · 5 min read

Zero to One

Notes on startups, or how to build the future

Peter Thiel · 5 min read