Best Business Books

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant examines how individuals champion new ideas, overcome doubt and fear, and drive change in organizations and society.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg investigates the science of extraordinary communicators, discovering a framework of conversation types and the skills that allow people to genuinely connect across difference.

Josh Kaufman synthesizes the most important concepts from business, marketing, sales, finance, and psychology into a self-directed MBA curriculum.

Daniel Pink argues that we are all in sales now — persuading, convincing, and moving others is a universal human activity, not just a profession — and explains the new science behind doing it well.

Keith Ferrazzi argues that professional success depends on the quality of your relationships and provides a system for building genuine connections rather than transactional networks.

Grant Cardone argues that the only way to achieve extraordinary results is to set targets 10 times higher than you think you need and take 10 times more action than seems necessary.

A practical guide to customer interviews that actually work — teaching founders how to ask questions that reveal truth rather than generating the false validation that kills startups.

Greg McKeown makes the case for a radical new discipline: the pursuit of less, but better. Essentialism is the art of discerning what is essential and eliminating everything else — so you can make your highest possible contribution.

A step-by-step process for positioning technology products that cuts through the confusion about what positioning is, why it matters, and how to do it well.

A six-year research project examining eighteen visionary companies that had outperformed the general stock market by a factor of 15 since 1926.

The definitive guide to modern technology product management — how the best product teams at companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix discover and deliver products that customers love.

Why some teams pull together and others don't — an investigation into the biology and anthropology of leadership and organisational safety.

Eric Ries argues that startups can shorten their product development cycles and discover what customers actually want through validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases. The Lean Startup changed how the world builds companies.

How to launch a freedom business — earning a good living from something you love — with minimal startup capital.

The ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, comprising thirteen chapters on military strategy that have been applied to business, law, sports, and competitive endeavors for 2,500 years.

David Schwartz argues that the size of your success is determined by the size of your belief — and provides practical techniques for cultivating bigger thinking in every area of life.

The definitive guide to the critical gap in technology adoption — the chasm between early adopters and the mainstream market — and how to cross it.

Grant Cardone argues that everything in life is a sale and that mastering the art of selling — yourself, your ideas, your products — is the most important skill you can develop.

A comprehensive framework for understanding and building network effects — the most powerful and most misunderstood force in technology — from a partner at Andreessen Horowitz who has studied them across dozens of companies.