Inspired by Simon Sinek’s wildly popular Ted Talk, How Great Leaders Inspire Action, Start With Why teaches us how great organizations communicate, lead, and acquire loyal customers. Sinek argues that great leaders and organizations focus on WHY they do what they do, instead of WHAT they do and HOW they do it.
Radical Candor is a crash course on how to be a great manager. In it, former Google leader Kim Scott shares her philosophy about how to be an empathetic and results-oriented leader. If you’re new to management, you’ll find a wealth of useful tidbits that will help you avoid common mistakes.
This is the life story of former Disney CEO, Bob Iger. Iger led a fascinating career in which he ascended from the lower ranks of organizations to being the leader of one of the world’s largest, most respected organizations. It’s full of fascinating stories, triumphs, and leadership lessons.
In Measure What Matters, venture capitalist John Doerr introduces you to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a powerful goal-setting framework for organizations. This system has been used by countless successful companies to direct efforts and grow over the long-term.
Jim Simons solved the market and became the most successful money manager in modern history. This story reveals how his fund beat the market with computers and averaged annual returns of 66% since 1988.
This is the fascinating tale of Steve Jobs, the mythicized founder of Apple. Isaacson gives you an in-depth look at Steve Jobs – his childhood, the businesses he built, his personality quirks, and more.
Chang explores how the male-dominated, work-at-all costs culture of Silicon Valley has shut women out of the greatest wealth creation in history. As someone who has worked in tech for most of my career, I read this to better understand one of the industry's biggest challenges.
Creativity, Inc. is Ed Catmull’s story about how he built a culture of constant creativity and innovation at the Pixar. Through engaging stories, Catmull conveys timeless business principles that will help you be a better leader and agent of creativity in your organization.
In this great marketing book, Wharton professor Jonah Berger explains how to use social currency, triggers, emotion, practical value, public, and stories to make ideas and products go viral.
Through an engaging story about a fictional plant manager who has 90 days to turnaround his plant, author Eliyahu Goldratt teaches you the first principles of operating a system and implementing a process of ongoing improvement.