You do not need original ideas to make money — copy proven models wholesale and don't change the working part.
Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai · Codie Sanchez
Technologies only flip incumbent markets once they cross the better threshold on price and performance.
4 Hard Truths About Capitalism and Climate · Steve Howard
Structure innovation into three separate buckets — the 10% bet is where paradigm returns live
Ex Google CEO: AI Can Create Deadly Viruses! If We See This, We Must Turn Off AI! · Eric Schmidt
Describe, design, and reinvent any business model through nine interconnected building blocks
Business Model Generation · Alexander Osterwalder
Find magical solutions by abandoning naive logic in human affairs
Alchemy · Rory Sutherland
Plan for learning rather than execution when entering markets that do not yet exist
The Innovator's Dilemma · Clayton M. Christensen
Diagnose why your organization cannot pursue disruptive opportunities despite wanting to
The Innovator's Dilemma · Clayton M. Christensen
Lead innovation as Architect, Bridger, and Catalyst instead of lone visionary
What Makes a Great Leader? · Linda Hill
Create demand that outstrips supply using four proven levers
Oversubscribed · Daniel Priestley
Reason up from fundamental truths rather than reasoning by analogy to convention
Entrepreneurs should follow their instincts · Steven Bartlett
Turn models upside-down
Top 5 Keys to a Rich Life & Business Wealth Handbook · Chris Voss
When the future is uncertain, let strategy emerge through learning; when the path is clear, execute deliberately
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Two distinct paths to disruptive growth: compete against nonconsumption or attack overserved customers at the bottom
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Shape your innovation into a disruption so incumbents are motivated to flee rather than fight
The Innovator's Solution · Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor
Distinguish between product loonshots that nobody thinks will work and strategy loonshots that nobody thinks will make money
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries · Safi Bahcall
Get out of the building to test whether your hypotheses about customers and their problems are correct
The Four Steps to the Epiphany · Steve Blank
A systematic evaluation of 17+ value capture models to choose or innovate the framework by which your venture extracts revenue from the value it creates for customers.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
A systematic, customer-driven approach to launching an innovation-based venture by working through 24 discrete steps grouped into six themes.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
Prioritize speed over efficiency in the face of uncertainty to build dominant companies.
Blitzscaling · Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh
Balance incremental improvements with breakthrough reinvention
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) · Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
Explore many directions cheaply before committing to one
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) · Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
Test your strategy for commercial viability with three visual criteria
Blue Ocean Strategy From Theory to Practice - W Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, Create: four moves to break the value-cost trade-off
Blue Ocean Strategy From Theory to Practice - W Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
A step-by-step guide to successfully commercializing technology your best customers do not want
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail · Clayton M. Christensen
Plan to learn and iterate, not to execute a preconceived strategy
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail · Clayton M. Christensen
Distinguish the innovations that topple leaders from those that reinforce them
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail · Clayton M. Christensen
Combine deep expertise with broad empathy across disciplines
Change by Design · Tim Brown
Balance your innovation portfolio across four quadrants of risk and reward
Change by Design · Tim Brown
Navigate innovation through overlapping spaces, not sequential steps
Change by Design · Tim Brown
Distinguish truly flawed ideas from poorly designed tests
Loonshots · Safi Bahcall
When a visionary leader becomes the bottleneck that kills innovation
Loonshots · Safi Bahcall
Distinguish product innovations from strategy innovations to avoid blind spots
Loonshots · Safi Bahcall
Close the divide between your aspirational values and your practiced values
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead · Brene Brown
A five-component strategic planning process that begins with values and noble cause, then moves t...
Tribal Leadership Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a · Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
Manage risk
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Disrupt markets
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Embracing innovation and risk-taking
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Use laws, norms, architecture, and markets to create fair ecosystems that maximize value
Platform Revolution · Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne & Sangeet Paul Choudary
Create a protected space for internal innovation with clear boundaries and accountability
The Lean Startup · Eric Ries
Measure startup progress with learning milestones instead of vanity metrics
The Lean Startup · Eric Ries