This is a list of the books, essays, blog posts, articles, podcasts, etc. that have had an outsized impact on my thinking in life and business. I am trying to figure out a good way to organize this, right now it is just a tiny part of my collection but definitely a set of books that I find myself suggesting to people over and over again.
Startups
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson and Dick Costolo (2011)
- Growing Pains : Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm
by Eric G. Flamholz and Yvonne Randle (2007)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz
- Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
by Bo Burlingham (2007)
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Marketing
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (2005)
- Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers (Collins Business Essentials)
by Geoffrey Moore (1991)
- The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Lead in Any Market
by John Zagula and Rich Tong (2004)
- Marketing High Technology
by William Davidow
Sales
- Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com
by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler
- The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Management
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
by Peter Drucker
- High Output Management
by Andy Grove
- How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business
by Dave Hitz and Pat Walsh
Business Processes
- The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
by Barbara Minto (1995)
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox(1992)
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
Disruption
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
by Marc Levinson (2008)
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
by Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)
History
Cleopatra: A Life
Artificial Intelligence
Talking Machines – Human Conversation About Machine Learning
On My Reading “To Do” List
Yes, I know I really need to read these. That’s why they are on here. I’ve been adding suggestions I get on Twitter and elsewhere to keep tabs on these, and you can tweet to me @DanielleMorrill to add more ideas. I’m particularly interested in reading about AI and becoming a better CEO right now.
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany
by Steve Blank
- The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design
by Marty Neumeier [HT: @benwilkinson]
- Everything on Keith Rabois’ Reading List
- Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindÂ
by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (started)
- The Leadership Engine
by Noel M. Tichy (started)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Fantastic list of books. Some of them have never been heard by me. What about Seth Godin and Eric Reis?
Danielle – we’re attempting to create a standardized platform for book suggestions called bookmarq. A more reader to reader oriented, prettier goodreads 🙂 . Could we seed this data and “create you a profile” as an “influencer”?
Thank you!
oh come on, if you’re hustling at least give a link to the website.
apologies.. good call, thanks! http://bookmarq.io
1-2 weeks from launch at the moment.