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Born To Run

Measure What Matters

because ideas are easy and execution is everything. This is a book about OKR’s and the great execution of ideas.

Delivering Happiness

Think and Grow Rich

The Coddling of the American Mind

Never Eat Alone

The Wisdom of Crowds

The Greatness Guide

The Conservative Heart

Liberal Fascism

What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There

How to Win Friends & Influence People

HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE Author: Dale Carnegie Pages: 291 Date Published: 1936 BUY THE BOOK Book Summary: An incredible book, written a long time ago (1936) about the importance of how you interact with other humans, what drives them and how (as the book suggests) win friends, influence people and generally help […]

Lifespan: Why We Age And Why We Don’t Have To

The Purpose Driven Life

The Purpose Driven Life

The Innovation Stack

is a decomposed look at how the best entrepreneurs solve the most interesting problems, piece by piece.

Training for the Uphill Athlete

is a masterclass on reaching your potential as an endurance athlete using low HR training techniques.

Blue Ocean Strategy Book Review

Atomic Habits

provides a roadmap for understanding and then developing ridiculously good habits that will last.

Business For Punks

explains every area of business in a very powerful way without sounding like a pretentious Harvard professor.

The Innovators Dilemma Book Review

Slicing Pie

is a book written for founders of early stage businesses that need to dynamically and fairly allocate owners equity.

Free

Like it or not, FREE is a business strategy that many top companies are using to reduce friction and to gain customers.  It’s a movement that has worked out phenomenally well for some and has been a colossal failure

The Ultimate Sales Machine

is a tactical guide for building a world class sales engine inside your business. Small or large, these 12 principles, applied with pigheaded discipline, will help you reach your sales objectives.

The Lean Startup

There is nothing worse that building an extremely awesome product that NOBODY WANTS.  Through this book, Eric Ries discusses the lean framework and a series of related stories on how to use LEAN to make sure you are building products people want.

Running Lean

Most startups fail. There is no silver bullet for success but this book provides a systematic approach for iterating from Plan A to a plan that works.

Traction

is a methodical approach to helping your lean startup grow but identifying and testing the most viable growth strategies.

Everything Is Figureoutable

Marie shares POWERFUL ideas that cover the gamut of personal development and entrepreneurship.  This is a must read for anyone heading down the entrepreneurial path and who will inevitably hit one of all of the speed bumps that

Zero to One

describes startups that create new things through technology. This world is not limited to Stanford and Sand Hill Road. It’s for everyone.

Business Model Generation

describes the business model canvas and why this highly adaptable framework is one that every business person needs to master.

The Four Steps to the Ephiphany

This is the book that launched the most advanced way of approach entrepreneurship to date. It gave rise to Eric Ries, Ash Maurya and Alexander Osterwalder to name a few. It’s a classic.

Think Big Act Bigger

To many of our personal stories are limited by self limiting beliefs. This book about self belief, authenticity and having a bias for action.

Mindset

explores how we view and respond to challenges, setbacks, criticism, the success of others and how important we believe effort is to success.  The fixed mindset responds poorly to these things where the growth mindset not only takes these in stride but uses them as fuel for success.

The One Thing

is knowing that at any given point in time, there is only one most important thing to do. Always doing the One Thing will enable you to achieve anything and everything you want in life.

The Rise of Superman

is an in-depth explanation of optimal human performance through mastery of flow state. Action sports athletes have advanced faster than other areas as a result of flow mastery.

The Start-up of You

is a step by step guide to building your career, or business, like a world class Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

The Defining Decade

explores how critical the twenties are to the rest of your life.  The twenties are the defining years for the rest of your life.

How to Win At the Sport of Business

is a powerful collection of Mark Cuban’s biggest ideas. It’s a book of blog posts outlining critical lessons learned.