Describe, design, and reinvent any business model through nine interconnected building blocks
Business Model Generation · Alexander Osterwalder
Become a key person of influence in your industry through five sequential personal brand steps
Key Person of Influence · Daniel Priestley
Stop doing what you are merely good at to become great
Good to Great: The Hedgehog Concept · Jim Collins
Drive real value through talent, introductions, and existential counsel
20VC — Vinod Khosla on Venture Assistance, Bold Bets, and What VCs Get Wrong · Vinod Khosla
Break growth into engines, turbo boosts, lubricants, and fuel
How to Build Products Users Love · Lenny Rachitsky
Everything has a natural scale; forcing beyond it breaks the system
Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast · Morgan Housel
Enable Combating WMD
National Military Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction · Unknown
Leverage partnerships
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge · Geoffrey A. Moore
Develop partnerships to create whole products
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge · Geoffrey A. Moore
Navigate partnerships in the tech industry
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge · Geoffrey A. Moore
Understand power dynamics
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge · Geoffrey A. Moore
Partnering for Success
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge · Geoffrey A. Moore
Create and commoditize partnerships
Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies From Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge · Geoffrey A. Moore
Understanding how VCs get paid, how their funds work, and what drives their behavior gives founders an information advantage
Venture Deals: Be Smarter than your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist · Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
Pair opposite talents to multiply team output, not just add
Strengths finder 2.0 · Tom Rath
Supreme excellence is breaking resistance without direct conflict
The Art of War · Sun Tzu
Reconcile your creative thinker and executor through structure
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done · David Allen
Design the system, not just the artifact within it
Change by Design · Tim Brown
Not knowing the rules lets you rewrite them
Shoe Dog · Phil Knight
Three-player alliances where the kingmaker holds real power
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes · Frans de Waal
Transform your organization from visionary-driven pioneers to mainstream-focused settlers as you ...
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition Marketing and Selling · Geoffrey A. Moore
Close the gap between your marketing promise and the buyer's actual experience by delivering the ...
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition Marketing and Selling · Geoffrey A. Moore
Cross the chasm by concentrating all forces on a single niche market, dominate it, then expand ou...
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition Marketing and Selling · Geoffrey A. Moore
Accelerate EV innovation
Elon Musk Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic · Ashlee Vance
Leverage your skills strategically to reach more people or new audiences without cloning
The $100 Startup · Chris Guillebeau
Filter every decision through your WHY so the world can clearly see what you believe.
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action · Simon Sinek
Define the fewest milestones needed to reach your traction goal and ignore everything else
Traction · Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares