Recommended Books

A collection of books that have changed how I think about the world.

Inspirational

• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Strategy

• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer

• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

• The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking

Markets

• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

• Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters

• The Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital: The Comprehensive Fundraising Handbook for Startup Founders

New Startups

• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

• The Myths of Innovation

• SPIN Selling

Scaling Startups

• Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0 Revised Edition)

• What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

• Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

• Freemium Economics: Leveraging Analytics and User Segmentation to Drive Revenue (The Savvy Manager's Guides)

Managing People

• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success

• Who

• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Personal Growth

• Atomic Habits An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

• High Output Management

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

• 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management

Psychology

• Don't Shoot the Dog! : The New Art of Teaching and Training

• Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World

• The Design Of Everyday Things

• How We Decide