The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
By William Thorndike
An indispensable resource on capital allocation and the personalities and approaches of an effective capital allocator.
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A perspective-changing book on hidden risks, tinkering, and optionality expanded on the author’s previous books.
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
By Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
A practical framework on building business models that opens up new market spaces to generate ‘leapfrog’ growth.
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
By Steve Blank
The book that launched the Lean Startup movement. This is perhaps the first book anyone considering starting a new venture should read.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
An eye-opening book on how humans are susceptible to underestimating the impact of highly improbable events even though they shape our world.
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
By Phil Knight
A highly intimate and extraordinary journey of how Nike was built told in a sincere and heartfelt manner by the founder himself.
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
By Brad Stone
The quintessential book on the importance of long-term thinking and customer-centricity.
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days
By Jessica Livingston
A rare glimpse into some of the world’s most prominent companies at their infancy.
Made in America
By Sam Walton
A market pioneer of discount retailing, Sam Walton tells us how he built Walmart into the empire that it is today.
Meditations
By Marcus Aurelius
A compilation of notes written by the last emperor of the Pax Romana on how to live and be a person of high character.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
By Ben Horowitz
An indispensable guide on dealing with the intricacies and challenges inherent in running a business based on the author’s own experience.
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
By Howard Marks
A collection of wisdom on investing and risk management that is also applicable to business management in general.
