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Behavioral Economics

Culture in Business

Design Thinking, Service Design, Creative Thinking

Finance & Investments

History, Humanity, Social

Personal Development & Psychology

Product Management

Startups, Building Companies

Strategic Management & Disruptive Innovation

Favourite Authors

Behavioral Economics

MisbehavingNobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predi...

Predictably IrrationalWhy do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? Why does recalling the Ten Co...

Biographies

Leonardo da VinciBased on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a n...

EinsteinEinstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science. In this narrati...

The InnovatorsThe computer and the internet are among the most important innovations of our era, but few people know who created them. They were not co...

ChurchillA landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from private letters to war cabinet meetings,...

Elon MuskElon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billi...

Steve JobsFrom the author of the bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, this is the exclusive, New York Times bestsellin...

The BridgeNo story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian...

BloombergExamine the Bipartisan Legacy of a Remarkable Billionaire PoliticianBloomberg: A Billionaire’s Ambition tells the story of how one of Ame...

Trillion Dollar CoachThe team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentor...

Culture in Business

Measure What Matters The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a foreword by Larry Page, and co...

What You Do Is Who You AreBen Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from h...

Design Thinking, Service Design, Creative Thinking

Creative ConfidenceIDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Ar...

Change by DesignThe myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come fr...

A Curious MindFrom Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes the New York Times bestselling, ...

Lean UXThe Lean UX approach to interaction design is tailor-made for today’s web-driven reality. In this insightful book, leading advocate Jeff ...

Big MagicReaders of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Gilbert offers ins...

Economics

The Future Is AsianIn the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being A...

The Hidden Wealth of NationsWe are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world’s wealth in the pock...

FreakonomicsWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still li...

Finance & Investments

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing"There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great...

A Random Walk Down Wall StreetToday’s stock market is not for the faint of heart. At a time of frightening volatility, what is the average investor to do? The answer...

History, Humanity, Social

The Death of CaesarJulius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on 3/15/44 BC—the Ides of March according to the Roman calendar. He was the last c...

Fatal InventionA decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized m...

Killing the Black BodyThis is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil...

Marketing

Invisible InfluenceIn Invisible Influence, the New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle influences that affect the decisions we m...

Non-ObviousWall Street Journal Bestseller#1 Amazon Kindle Business Bestseller#1 in Marketing#1 in EntrepreneurshipTOP 50 of ALL Kindle BooksWhat do ...

Personal Development & Psychology

Thinking, Fast and SlowIn the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems th...

MindsetA newer edition of this book can be found here. After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dwec...

GritIn this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and b...

How Will You Measure Your Life?In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class....

Big PotentialBestselling author Shawn Achor shows how to unlock hidden sources of potential in ourselves and others. In a world that thrives on compe...

How to ThinkHow to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume - but how recovering this lost art can rescue our...

Option BFrom Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, ...

The Road to Character“I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other pe...

Eyes Wide OpenIn this New York Times bestseller, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing h...

Before HappinessWhy are some people able to make positive change while others remain the same? In his international bestseller, The Happiness Advantage...

The Happiness AdvantageOur most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if w...

PrinciplesRay Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refi...

WhenEveryone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decis...

DriveThe New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation Most people believe that the b...

The Power of SmallThe authors of the national bestseller THE POWER OF NICE once again tackle conventional wisdom with a provocative and counterintuitive bo...

Everybody LiesForeword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Fre...

Smarter Faster BetterA new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today’s world, managing how you think—rather than what you think—can tr...

The Power of HabitA young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking...

PeakFrom the world’s reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill. Have you ever wanted to learn ...

Product Management

HookedHow do successful companies create products people can’t put down?Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? Wh...

Crossing the ChasmHere is the bestselling guide that created a new game plan for marketing in high-tech industries. Crossing the Chasm has become the bible...

SprintFrom three design partners at Google Ventures, a unique five-day process for solving tough problems using design, prototyping, and testin...

Hacking GrowthThe definitive playbook by the pioneers of Growth Hacking, one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. It see...

Science

Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsAll the beauty of modern physics in fewer than a hundred pages. This is a book about the joy of discovery. A playful, entertaining, and ...

Startups, Building Companies

The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsA lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one....

OriginalsIn Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion no...

The Startup WayBestselling author, entrepreneur, and Lean startup founder Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, reveals how established corporations an...

Start with WhyWhy do you do what you do? Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why...

Shoe DogIn this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s ea...

OnwardIn 2008, Howard Schultz, the president and chairman of Starbucks, made the unprecedented decision to return as the CEO eight years after ...

The Virgin WayWhile building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (...

The Third WaveNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER One of America’s most accomplished entrepreneurs—a pioneer who made the Internet...

Hit RefreshAs told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of corporate change and reinvention as well as the story of Nadella’s pe...

Zero to OneIf you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted fronti...

The Silo EffectFrom award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett comes a brilliant examination of how our tendency to create functional departmen...

Strategic Management & Disruptive Innovation

High Output ManagementThe essential skill of creating and maintaining new businesses—the art of the entrepreneur—can be summed up in a single word: managing. I...

Good Strategy Bad StrategyClears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerfu...

The Innovator's DilemmaHarvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership -- or ...

The Innovator's SolutionA seminal work by bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen.In his international bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christens...

The Four Steps to the EpiphanyThe essential book for anyone bringing a product to market, writing a business plan, marketing plan or sales plan. Step-by-step strategy ...

Good to GreatTo find the keys to greatness, Collins's 21-person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interv...

Strategic Management of Technological InnovationStrategic Management of Technological Innovation, 2e by Melissa Schilling is the first comprehensive, rigorous and yet accessible text fo...

Playing to WinAre you just playing—or playing to win?Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to m...

Seeing Around CornersThe first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen—and how to harness these disruptive influences to...

The Tipping PointAn alternate cover edition exists here. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a thresho...

Technology

The InevitableFrom one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next th...

Human Compatible A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to coexist successfully with increasing...

The Master AlgorithmA thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our ownI...

Thank You for Being LateA field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers In his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L....

Digital to the CoreNA

Social PhysicsFrom one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the...

Favourite Authors

Clayton M. ChristensenAuthor of The Innovator's Dilemma, How Will You Measure Your Life?, and The Innovator's Solution

Shawn AchorAuthor of The Happiness Advantage, Before Happiness, and Big Potential

Dan ArielyAuthor of Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty

Ben HorowitzAuthor of The Hard Thing About Hard Things, What You Do Is Who You Are, and Can-Do vs. Can t-Do Culture

Daniel H. PinkAuthor of Drive, A Whole New Mind, and When

Walter IsaacsonAuthor of Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin

Angela DuckworthAuthor of Grit, Key to Success, and Grit

Adam M. GrantAuthor of Originals, Give and Take, and Power Moves

James C. CollinsAuthor of Good to Great, Built to Last, and Great by Choice

Ray DalioAuthor of Principles, Principles, and Big Debt Crises

Eric RiesAuthor of The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leader's Guide

Simon SinekAuthor of Start with Why, Leaders Eat Last, and The Infinite Game

Malcolm GladwellAuthor of The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Blink

Steve BlankAuthor of The Four Steps to the Epiphany, The Startup Owner's Manual, and The Startup Owner's Manual Strategy Guide

Richard BransonAuthor of Losing My Virginity, Screw It, Let's Do It, and The Virgin Way

Carol S. DweckAuthor of Mindset, Self-Theories, and The Secret to Raising Smart Kids - Hint Don't tell

Charles DuhiggAuthor of The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better, and The Power of Habit, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook

Dorothy RobertsAuthor of Killing the Black Body, Fatal Invention, and Shattered Bonds

Roger L. MartinAuthor of The Design of Business, The Opposable Mind, and Getting Beyond Better

Barbara OakleyAuthor of A Mind for Numbers, Mindshift, and Learning How to Learn

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