Books

Here are a few of the books I’ve read in the hopes you might find a few that you would like to read. One way to go about using this page is to open any books you find interesting into a new tab. Then use the Pocket extension to bookmark them to read later. Then just read one pocket article a day and determine which books you’d like to read.

Amazon.com's visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store...
My Rating:
5
/ 5

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of...

By :
BRAD STONE
An insightful new book from the multimillion-copy bestselling author Sean Covey and the FranklinCovey organization based on their work...
My Rating:
4
/ 5

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your...

By :
SEAN COVEY & JIM HULING
For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die. Smart entrepreneurs...
My Rating:
tbd
/ 5

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Cust...

By :
GABRIEL WEINBERG & JUSTIN MARES
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse...
My Rating:
3
/ 5

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...

By :
JIM COLLINS
Author and four-time founder/CEO Dan Shapiro tells the stories of dozens of startups whose companies lived and died by the advice in these...
My Rating:
5
/ 5

Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook

By :
DAN SHAPIRO
By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them - and find out, in...
My Rating:
5
/ 5

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind...

By :
ERIC BARKER
Best-selling author and marketer Ryan Holiday calls such works and artists perennial sellers. How do they endure and thrive while most books...
My Rating:
3
/ 5

Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work...

By :
RYAN HOLIDAY
To this day, McCormack’s business classic remains a must-read for executives and managers at every level, featuring straight-talking advice...
My Rating:
3
/ 5

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

By :
MARK MCCORMACK
All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations: personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem...
My Rating:
5
/ 5

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

By :
GINO WICKMAN
The path to your life’s work is difficult and risky, even scary, which is why few finish the journey. This is a book about discovering your life’s work...
My Rating:
3
/ 5

The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were...

By :
JEFF GOINS
Discover the outbound sales process that, in just a few years, helped add $100 million in recurring revenue to Salesforce.com, almost doubling...
My Rating:
4
/ 5

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine...

By :
AARON ROSS & MARYLOU TYLER
With characters and situations created from collective business experiences and stories, Get A Grip is a fable that will ring true for entrepreneurial...
My Rating:
5
/ 5

Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable

By :
GINO WICKMAN & MIKE PATON
A revised edition of the timeless business classic—updated to help today’s readers succeed more quickly in a rapidly changing world.
My Rating:
3
/ 5

The New One Minute Manager

By :
KEN BLANCHARD & SPENCER JOHNSON
An empirical argument in favor of more limited working hours and greater understanding of the benefits of active rest as a means of raising...
My Rating:
5
/ 5

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

By :
ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANG
Hooked provides practical insights for app developers and startup founders to create user habits that will have their users coming back for more.
My Rating:
4
/ 5

Hooked

By :
Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover