Entrepreneurship library (must read books)

Entrepreneurship library (must read books)

This is a compilation of some of the best books about entrepreneurship, collected by one of my students ( fito )

What is missing?

  1. Good to great by Jim Collins ISBN: 0066620996 (ISBN13: 9780066620992)
  2. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell ISBN: 0316346624 (ISBN13: 9780316346627)
  3. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen ISBN: 0142000280 (ISBN13: 9780142000281)
  4. The 4-Hour Workweek, Revised and Expanded: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss ISBN: 0307465357 (ISBN13: 9780307465351)
  5. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin ISBN: 159184021X (ISBN13: 9781591840213)
  6. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber ISBN: 0887307280 (ISBN13: 9780887307287)
  7. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt ISBN: 0884271781 (ISBN13: 9780884271789)
  8. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin ISBN: 1591841666 (ISBN13: 9781591841661)
  9. Rework by Jason Fried ISBN: 0307463745 (ISBN13: 9780307463746)
  10. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath ISBN: 1400064287 (ISBN13: 9781400064281)
  11. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki ISBN: 1591840562 (ISBN13: 9781591840565)
  12. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky ISBN: 1591842212 (ISBN13: 9781591842217)
  13. First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham ISBN: 0684852861 (ISBN13: 9780684852867)
  14. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher ISBN: 0140157352 (ISBN13: 9780140157352)
  15. In Search of Excellence by Thomas peters ISBN: 0446385077 (ISBN13: 9780446385077)
  16. The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton Christensen ISBN: 0060521996 (ISBN13: 9780060521998)
  17. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh ISBN: 0446563048 (ISBN13: 9780446563048)
  18. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins ISBN: 0060566108 (ISBN13: 9780060566104)
  19. Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffry Moore ISBN: 0060517123 (ISBN13: 9780060517120)
  20. Marketing Management by Philip Kotler ISBN: 0131457578 (ISBN13: 9780131457577)
  21. All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin ISBN: 0718148657 (ISBN13: 9780718148652)
  22. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries ISBN: 0307887898 (ISBN13: 9780307887894)
  23. Blink: The Power of THinking without Thinking by Malcom Galdwell ISBN: 0316010669 (ISBN13: 9780316010665)
  24. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink ISBN: 1594488843 (ISBN13: 9781594488849)
  25. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowestein ISBN: 0375758259 (ISBN13: 9780375758256)
  26. The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership by Steven Sample ISBN: 0787967076 (ISBN13: 9780787967079)
  27. You Can Negotiate Anything: The World’s Best Negotiator Tells You How To Get What You Want by Herb Cohen ISBN: 0553281097 (ISBN13: 9780553281095)
  28. Business Model Generation: A Handbook For Visionaries, Game Changers, And Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder ISBN: 2839906171 (ISBN13: 9782839906173)
  29. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: How to Be Seen and Heard in the Overcrowded by Al Ries ISBN: 0071373586 (ISBN13: 9780071373586)
  30. Winning Intl by Jack Welch ISBN: 0061240176 (ISBN13: 9780061240171)
  31. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston ISBN: 1590597141 (ISBN13: 9781590597149)
  32. Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant by Chan Kim ISBN: 1591396190 (ISBN13: 9781591396192)
  33. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is connecting the World By David Kirkpatrick ISBN: 1439102112 (ISBN13: 9781439102114)
  34. Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar ISBN: 0425081028 (ISBN13: 9780425081020)
  35. The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America’s Top Business Schools by Steven Silbiger ISBN: 0060799072 (ISBN13: 9780060799076)
  36. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni ISBN: 0787960756 (ISBN13: 9780787960759)
  37. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco ISBN: 0932633439 (ISBN13: 9780932633439)
  38. Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life by Avinash Dixit ISBN: 0393310353 (ISBN13: 9780393310351)
  39. Mintzberg on Management: Inside Our Strange World of Organizations by Henry Mintzberg ISBN: 0029213711 (ISBN13: 9780029213711)
  40. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross ISBN: 1101443243 (ISBN13: 9781101443248)
  41. The N Factor: How Efficient Networking Can Change the Dynamics of Your Business by Adrie Reinders ISBN: 0832950068 (ISBN13: 9780832950063)
  42. Starting A Small Business The Real Deal by Joyce Saint-Cyr ISBN13: 9780578068985
  43. Lead to Succeed and You Won’t Manage to Fail by Corey Grant ISBN: 0983855900 (ISBN13: 9780983855903)
  44. Grow Your Profits by MS Hanan Kattan ISBN: 0957075200 (ISBN13: 9780957075207)
  45. How to Sell Your Business for the Price You Want by Mark Blayney ISBN: 1845282736 (ISBN13: 9781845282738)
  46. Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins ISBN: 0230607578 (ISBN13: 9780230607576)
  47. EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches by Dave Ramsey ISBN: 1451617852 (ISBN13: 9781451617856)
  48. Seeing Organizational Patterns by Robert Kidel ISBN: 1881052656 (ISBN13: 9781881052654)
  49. The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steven Gery Blank ISBN: 0976470705 (ISBN13: 9780976470700)
  50. Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin by James O’Shea ISBN: 0140276858 (ISBN13: 9780140276855)
  51. Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel ISBN: 0875847161 (ISBN13: 9780875847160)
  52. Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics by Stafford Beer ISBN: 0471948381 (ISBN13: 9780471948384)
  53. The it Handbook for Business by William Couie ISBN: 1453766561 (ISBN13: 9781453766569)
  54. Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values by Fred Kofman ISBN: 1591795176 (ISBN13: 9781591795179)
  55. Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action by John Spence ISBN: 0470494514 (ISBN13: 9780470494516)
  56. Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business by Sarah Aubrey ISBN: 1580176976 (ISBN13: 9781580176972)
  57. Marketing in the Age of Google: Your Online Strategy Is Your Business Strategy by Vanessa Fox ISBN: 0470537191 (ISBN13: 9780470537190)
  58. Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins ISBN: 0062121006 (ISBN13: 9780062121004)
  59. Mechanics of Innovation: The Essential Handbook for Inventors, Engineers, Scientists, & Physicians by Richard McMurtrey ISBN: 0985396318 (ISBN13: 9780985396312)
  60. Potemkin, Inc. by Philippe Joly ISBN: 1447895304 (ISBN13: 9781447895305)
  61. Wearing Chinese Glasses: How (not) to Go Broke in Chinese Asia by Greg Bissky ISBN13: 9780987165213
  62. Managing Indirect Spend: Enhancing Profitability Through Strategic Sourcing by Joey Payne ISBN: 0470886889 (ISBN13: 9780470886885)
  63. How to Write Your Business Plan (Cognito Guides) by Kathleen Keene
  64. Intellectual Property by Alexandre Montagu ISBN: 0314604987 (ISBN13: 9780314604989)
  65. Turning a Business Around: How to Spot the Warning Signs and Ensure a Business Stays Healthy by Mark Blayney ISBN: 1845280636 (ISBN13: 9781845280635)
  66. The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy by Nilofer Merchant ISBN: 0596156251 (ISBN13: 9780596156251)
  67. The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably by Thomas Nagle ISBN: 0131856774 (ISBN13: 9780131856776)
  68. The Profitable Hobby Farm: How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business by Sarah Aubrey ISBN: 0470432098 (ISBN13: 9780470432099)
  69. The Power of an Internal Franchise: How Your Business Will Prosper When Employees Act Like Owners by Martin O’Neill ISBN: 0982056915 (ISBN13: 9780982056912)
  70. How to Audit your Intellectual Property (IP) (Cognito Guides) by Kathleen Keene
  71. The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management by Summatra Ghoshal ISBN: 0712669817 (ISBN13: 9780712669818)
  72. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael Porter ISBN: 0684841487 (ISBN13: 9780684841489)
  73. Buying A Business And Making It Work: A Step By Step Guide To Purchasing A Business And Making It Successful by Mark Blayney ISBN: 1848030134 (ISBN13: 9781848030138)
  74. Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rule-breakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray ISBN: 0596804172 (ISBN13: 9780596804176)
  75. Why Johnny Can’t Brand: Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Big Idea by Bill Schley ISBN: 0982694172 (ISBN13: 9780982694176)
  76. The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel III ISBN: 1591397820 (ISBN13: 9781591397823)
  77. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael Porter ISBN: 0684841460 (ISBN13: 9780684841465)
  78. Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure by Andreas Kluth ISBN: 1594488126 (ISBN13: 9781594488122)
  79. Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas by Seth Godin ISBN: 1591841267 (ISBN13: 9781591841265)
  80. The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg ISBN: 159184200X (ISBN13: 9781591842002)
  81. Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan ISBN: 0140257314 (ISBN13: 9780140257311)
  82. Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz ISBN: 1605292885 (ISBN13: 9781605292885)
  83. The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steven Gary Blank ISBN: 0984999302 (ISBN13: 9780984999309)

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