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A "library" you may find helpful as you build your company, culture, and team...
MOST RECENT READS
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything by Mauro Guillen Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism by Hubert Joly
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy Milkman The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future by Jack Fuller and Martin Reeves
The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off by Mason Donovan and Mark Kaplan Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life by Marcus Buckingham
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
LEADERSHIP
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
Making Vision Stick by Andy Stanley
The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
Winning by Jack Welch
STRATEGY AND GROWTH
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition
Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business by Tiffani Bova
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
Profit from the Core by Chris Zook and James Allen
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
SERVICE
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Great At Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More by Morten Hansen
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
CULTURE AND PEOPLE OPERATIONS
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
BIOGRAPHIES AND STORIES OF SPECIFIC COMPANIES
Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard Tedlow
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Bill & Dave: How Hewlett Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company by Michael Malone
Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey (co-founder of Whole Foods)
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Brandson
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie (founder of TOMS Shoes)
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change by Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com)
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything by Mauro Guillen Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism by Hubert Joly
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy Milkman The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future by Jack Fuller and Martin Reeves
The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off by Mason Donovan and Mark Kaplan Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life by Marcus Buckingham
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
LEADERSHIP
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
Making Vision Stick by Andy Stanley
The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
Winning by Jack Welch
STRATEGY AND GROWTH
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition
Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business by Tiffani Bova
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
Profit from the Core by Chris Zook and James Allen
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
SERVICE
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Great At Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More by Morten Hansen
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
CULTURE AND PEOPLE OPERATIONS
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
BIOGRAPHIES AND STORIES OF SPECIFIC COMPANIES
Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard Tedlow
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Bill & Dave: How Hewlett Packard Built the World’s Greatest Company by Michael Malone
Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey (co-founder of Whole Foods)
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography by Richard Brandson
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie (founder of TOMS Shoes)
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change by Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com)