Reading List

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Biographies & Memoirs

1. I love Capitalism!: An American Story by Ken Langone
2. The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
3. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis V. Gerstner
4. Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
5. The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change by Adam Braun
6. Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie
7. God's Own Kitchen: The Inspiring Story of Akshaya Patra - A Social Enterprise Run by Monks and CEOs by Rashmi Bansal
8. Mind Without Fear by Rajat Gupta
9. Grinding it Out: The Making of McDonald's by Ray Kroc

Leadership & People Management

1. Building an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them up the Learning Curve by Whitney Johnson
2. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Hastings et. al.
3. Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
4. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo

5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

Startup, Entrepreneurship, and General Management

1. Rework by Fried and Hansson
2. High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
3. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
4. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

Product Management & Technology

1. The Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms by Davis S. Evans
2. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
3. The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan A. Olsen
4. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
5. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore

General Non-Fiction

1. Bridgital Nation: Solving Technology's People Problem by Chandrasekaran and Purushothaman
2. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
3. The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time by David A. Vise
4. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Science, Psychology, and Self-improvement

1. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Garcia and Miralles

2. The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
3. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
4. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
5. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
6. The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
7. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
8. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
9. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
10. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
11. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson
12. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
13. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
14. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie