On Writing Well
You won’t fire people every day (I hope!). You won’t pitch investors every day. You won’t launch or kill product lines every day. And you won’t give grand sp...
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The Hard Thing about Hard Things
While much of the advice is aimed squarely at founder CEOs, there’s plenty of value for non-founder CEOs and leaders, with much of it about managing the ment...
Start with Why
It’s true that you can get a lot of value just by watching his TED talk of the same name, but I still recommend reading the book as a way to really help the ...
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
After finishing this book, you will have a new framework through which to understand and analyze not just technology changes, but how they fit into the wider...
How Will You Measure Your Life?
By itself the book’s advice about living life and choosing your career is practical and sound, and makes it well worth reading and reflecting on. But the rea...
Your Brain at Work
Leading a business (or even just a team) is rightly called “knowledge work” and for most people it requires far more mental effort than physical effort. But ...
Thinking in Systems
The title of Donella Meadows’ masterpiece “Thinking in Systems” explains precisely what the book will do in 254 concise pages that are a joy to read: it will...
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
The word “strategy” could use a strategy. It’s used too broadly, rarely meaning the same thing for two people. It’s frequently stretched and contorted to inc...