Recommended Entrepreneur Books
May 19, 2010 7 Comments
A lightening round topic came up at today’s EO Accelerator monthly accountability group meeting about good business/entrepreneur books to read. I named a few off hand and realized I needed to have a better list available. Here’s a list of books that I own and recommend, representing about 50% of the business books that I own:
- Beyond Entrepreneurship
- Switch
- Outliers
- Awaken the Giant Within
- The Goal
- Business Stripped Bare
- The Oz Principle
- Who’s Got Your Back
- Liar’s Poker
- Moneyball
- The Daily Drucker
- The Black Swan
- Kiss Theory Goodbye
- Small Giants
- The Five Temptations of a CEO
- Valley Boy
- The Great Game of Business
- Silos, Politics, and Turfwars
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
- Founders at Work
- Getting Real
This is a pretty good list to start with. I recommend clicking through and reading about them on Amazon.com to learn more.
What else? What other books would you recommend?
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David –
Great list. There are a few more I might add…
– The Long Tail
– Leadership and Self Deception
– Death by Meeting
– New Venture Creation (the bible for entrepreneurs)
– Blink
– Fierce Conversations
Thanks again for the daily post…
Cheers,
J
Just finished Rework by the 37signals guys, loved it! Add it to your list.
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead are inspirational books for entrepreneurs. I also recommend Blue Ocean Strategy, The Effective Executive, Crossing the Chasm and Fooled by Randomness.
“Startup” by Jerry Kaplan is an oldy (1997) but a good book – details the startup of GO corp which was the original tablet/mobile touchscreen company and how it got funded built its product and ultimately how it failed (and looking back it was just too far ahead of its time) – i loved reading it in the late 90′s crazy startup time and it is still a good book
I would add to that something by Chris Anderson (like Free, or Long Tail), something by Malcolm Gladwell (like Blink, or Outliers).
… and “The world is flat” by Thomas Freedman.
Agreed with Vladik.
Rework is great.
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