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Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards from Yu-Kai Chou
How Google Works from Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting from Robert McKee
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric from Ted Mann, Thomas Gryta
The Startup Owners Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company from Steve Blank, Bob Dorf
The Power Presenter: Technique, Style, and Strategy from Americas Top Speaking Coach from Jerry Weissman
The Hero with a Thousand Faces from Joseph Campbell
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions from Dr. Dan Ariely
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days from Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz, Dan Bittner
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger from Peter D. Kaufman
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale from John A List
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy from William B. Irvine
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen from Damon Centola
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion from Robert B. Cialdini
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value from Teresa Torres
Strong Product People: A Complete Guide to Developing Great Product Managers from Petra Wille
Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value from Melissa Perri
Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams from Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, Nate Walkingshaw
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity from Alan Cooper
Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) from Martina Lauchengco, Todd Wilms, Chris Jones
Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology from Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro
Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices To Become a Great Product Manager from Jackie Bavaro, Gayle McDowell
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts from Annie Duke
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability from Steve Krug
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life from Nir Eyal
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. from Brene Brown
Nudge: The Final Edition: Improving Decisions About Money, Health, and the Environment from Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for The Thoughtful Investor from Howard Marks
Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders from Jack D. Schwager
The Alchemy of Finance from George Soros
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite from Sebastian Mallaby
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days from Jessica Livingston
Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity from Kim Scott
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike from Phil Knight
Recruiting from Ryan Breslow
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture from Scott Belsky
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth from Clayton M. Christensen
Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You from John Warrilow
Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life from Eric Greitens
Man's Search for Meaning from Viktor E. Frankl
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves from Matt Ridley
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software from Nadia Eghbal
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation from Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson
People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams from Jono Bacon
Do Less Better: The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World from J. Bell
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth from Gabriel Weinberg
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes from Gabriel Weinberg
The Art of War from Sun Tzu
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love from Marty Cagan
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day from Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It from Michael E. Gerber
Radical Uncertainty from John Kay, Mervyn King
Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure from Jerry Kaplan
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration from Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
$100M Leads: How to Get Strangers to Want to Buy Your Stuff from Alex Hormozi
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft from Stephen King
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense from Rory Sutherland
Badass: Making Users Awesome from Kathy Sierra
The JOLT Effect: How High Performers Overcome Customer Indecision from Matthew Dixon, Ted McKenna
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values from Robert M. Pirsig
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI from Anil Ananthaswamy
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet from Chris Dixon
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy from Hamilton Helmer
make: The Indie Maker Handbook from Pieter Levels
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company from Andrew S. Grove
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters from Ryan Singer
Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business from Kenneth Roman, Joel Raphaelson
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road from Nick Bilton
Focus: The ASML way - Inside the power struggle over the most complex machine on earth from Marc Hijink
The minimalist entrepreneur: How great founders do more with less from Sahil Lavingia
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn from Richard W. Hamming
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It from Scott Kupor, Eric Ries
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist from Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See from Seth Godin
AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models from Chip Huyen
Design Is Storytelling from Ellen Lupton
The Qualified Sales Leader: Proven Lessons from a Five Time CRO from John McMahon
Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader from Michael Dell, James Kaplan
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect from Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie