Build genuine friendships with customers—friendships are immune to competition and price negotiation
The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource · Jeffrey Gitomer
Leverage cognitive biases ethically to create genuine improvements in customer experience
How Your Brain Gets Tricked By Clever Marketing - Rory Sutherland (4K) · Rory Sutherland
Lead transformation by putting purpose and people before profits and shareholder value
Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly: Empowering Workers to Create 'Magic' · Hubert Joly
Solve problems by understanding psychological reality not just logical reality
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life · Rory Sutherland
Focus on the predictive activities you can influence, not lagging outcomes
The 4 Disciplines of Execution · Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling
Turn your largest expense into a strategic advantage
Scaling Up Compensation · Verne Harnish & Sebastian Ross
How something is packaged and presented changes what it actually is to the consumer
Rory Sutherland - 19 Of Human Behaviours Weirdest Quirks · Rory Sutherland
When big expensive things are brilliant but small details are catastrophic
Sweat the small stuff · Rory Sutherland
People suffer more from not knowing than from bad news itself
Perspective is everything · Rory Sutherland
Add a personal touch
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur · Derek Sivers
Competitive advantage
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge · Geoffrey A. Moore
Your biggest growth opportunity is the people who refuse to buy from you
Blue Ocean Strategy From Theory to Practice - W Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Navigate five distinct phases of technology market evolution from early market through tornado to...
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition Marketing and Selling · Geoffrey A. Moore
Address external, internal, and philosophical problems to create irresistible brand promises
Building a StoryBrand - Clarify Your Message So Customers · Donald Miller
Focus on customer satisfaction
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter 1986 · Warren Buffett
Optimizing for long-term growth and happiness
Machines, Creativity & Love | Dr. Lex Fridman · Andrew Huberman
Customer happiness
How Zoom prepared for massive growth (w/ CEO Eric Yuan) | Masters of Scale · Masters of Scale
Focus on Thrilling Customers
First Principles Thinking · Shane Parrish
What people expect to experience literally changes what they do experience
Predictably Irrational · Dan Ariely
Lock in customers so that the cost of leaving exceeds the benefit of any alternative
7 Powers · Hamilton Helmer
Give people a choice to pay full-price later or pay a discounted price now — removing all risk while maximizing upfront cash.
$100M Money Models · Alex Hormozi