browse

business & management books

The most-recommended business & management titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
    65 people

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · 2011

    65 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
    58 people

    The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

    Ben Horowitz · 2014

    58 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
    54 people

    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · 2014

    54 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
    40 people

    Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

    David J. Epstein · 2019

    40 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
    38 people

    The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

    Clayton M. Christensen · 2003

    38 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • High Output Management
    36 people

    High Output Management

    Andrew S. Grove · 1995

    36 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Good To Great : Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't
    32 people

    Good To Great : Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't

    Jim Collins · 2001

    32 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
    28 people

    Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

    Hans Rosling · 2018

    28 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)
    27 people

    The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto)

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2007

    27 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
    26 people

    Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition

    edited by Peter Kaufman · 2006

    26 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
    24 people

    The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

    Don Norman · 2002

    24 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
    24 people

    Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

    Annie Duke · 2018

    24 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Wealth of Nations
    21 people

    The Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith · 1977

    21 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
    21 people

    Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

    Simon Sinek · 2009

    21 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
    20 people

    Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

    Kim Scott · 2017

    20 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Never Split the Difference
    20 people

    Never Split the Difference

    Chris Voss · 2023

    20 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Only the Paranoid Survive
    20 people

    Only the Paranoid Survive

    Andrew S. Grove · 1998

    20 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The E-Myth Revisited : Why Most Small Businesses Dont Work and What to Do About It
    19 people

    The E-Myth Revisited : Why Most Small Businesses Dont Work and What to Do About It

    Michael E. Gerber · 1995

    19 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    19 people

    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    John Carreyrou · 2018

    19 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
    19 people

    The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

    Peter F. Drucker · 2006

    19 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
    19 people

    Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

    Nir Eyal · 2019

    19 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)
    18 people

    Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2018

    18 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
    17 people

    Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

    Safi Bahcall · 2019

    17 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
    17 people

    The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

    Bill Walsh · 2009

    17 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
    16 people

    The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

    William N. Thorndike Jr. · 2012

    16 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Rational Optimist
    16 people

    The Rational Optimist

    Matt Ridley · 2010

    16 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
    16 people

    Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

    Geoffrey A. Moore · 2006

    16 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
    16 people

    High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People

    Elad Gil · 2018

    16 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Predictably Irrational
    16 people

    Predictably Irrational

    Dan Ariely · 2008

    16 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
    16 people

    Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

    Tony Hsieh · 2010

    16 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
    15 people

    What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

    Ben Horowitz · 2019

    15 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)
    15 people

    Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)

    Jim Collins · 2004

    15 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Thinking in Systems
    14 people

    Thinking in Systems

    Donella H. Meadows · 2008

    14 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
    14 people

    The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

    Matt Mochary · 2019

    14 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
    14 people

    Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

    John Doerr · 2018

    14 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
    14 people

    Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

    : The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg &Alan Eagle · 2019

    14 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Tribe of Mentors
    14 people

    Tribe of Mentors

    Tim Ferriss · 2017

    14 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    13 people

    Debt: The First 5,000 Years

    David Graeber · 2011

    13 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Life 3.0
    13 people

    Life 3.0

    Max Tegmark · 2017

    13 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
    13 people

    Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

    Ray Dalio · 2021

    13 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
    13 people

    Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

    Nir Eyal · 2014

    13 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
    12 people

    Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

    Danny Meyer · 2006

    12 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
    12 people

    The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

    Robert J. Gordon · 2016

    12 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It
    12 people

    Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

    Scott Kupor · 2019

    12 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
    12 people

    7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

    Hamilton Helmer · 2016

    12 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition
    12 people

    Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition

    Al Ries · 2001

    12 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
    12 people

    Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

    Mike Isaac · 2019

    12 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Road to Serfdom
    12 people

    The Road to Serfdom

    Friedrich Hayek · 1994

    12 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Book Of Five Rings
    11 people

    The Book Of Five Rings

    Miyamoto Musashi · 1988

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
    11 people

    Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

    Stuart Russell · 2019

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Eating Animals
    11 people

    Eating Animals

    Jonathan Safran Foer · 2009

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Economics in One Lesson
    11 people

    Economics in One Lesson

    Henry Hazlitt · 1979

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • How Will You Measure Your Life?
    11 people

    How Will You Measure Your Life?

    Clayton M. Christensen · 2012

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
    11 people

    Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

    Seth Godin · 2003

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
    11 people

    Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

    Geoffrey West · 2017

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
    11 people

    No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

    Erin Meyer & Reed Hastings · 2020

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
    11 people

    Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

    Dan Gardner & Philip E Tetlock · 2015

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Getting to Yes
    11 people

    Getting to Yes

    Roger Fisher · 1992

    11 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • On War: Complete First Four Unabridged Books
    10 people

    On War: Complete First Four Unabridged Books

    Carl Von Clausewitz · 1989

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    10 people

    Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Thomas Piketty · 2014

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
    10 people

    Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

    Robert Cialdini Ph.D. · 2016

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
    10 people

    Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

    Jessica Livingston · 2007

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Leadership: In Turbulent Times
    10 people

    Leadership: In Turbulent Times

    Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2018

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Traction
    10 people

    Traction

    Gabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares · 2015

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Freakonomics
    10 people

    Freakonomics

    Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 2006

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Blue Ocean Strategy
    10 people

    Blue Ocean Strategy

    W. Chan Kim · 2005

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition
    10 people

    The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - 30th Anniversary Edition

    Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 2004

    10 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
    9 people

    Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

    Michael Lewis · 2004

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
    9 people

    This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

    Nicole Perlroth · 2021

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion
    9 people

    Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

    Gary Vaynerchuk · 2009

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
    9 people

    Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

    Dave Logan · 2008

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Venture Deals
    9 people

    Venture Deals

    Brad Feld · 2011

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
    9 people

    Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

    Clay Shirky · 2008

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
    9 people

    Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

    Blake Masters · 2014

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Superforecasting
    9 people

    Superforecasting

    Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner · 2015

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The ONE Thing
    9 people

    The ONE Thing

    Gary Keller & Jay Papasan · 2001

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
    9 people

    The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

    Michael Lewis · 2015

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
    9 people

    Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

    Emily Chang · 2018

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
    9 people

    The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

    Jim Dethmer · 2015

    9 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
    8 people

    The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations

    James Surowiecki · 2005

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Working Backwards
    8 people

    Working Backwards

    Colin Bryar and Bill Carr · 2021

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
    8 people

    Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

    Paul Jarvis · 2019

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
    8 people

    Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

    J. Bradford DeLong · 2022

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
    8 people

    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    Shoshana Zuboff · 2019

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Book of Why
    8 people

    The Book of Why

    Judea Pearl · 2018

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
    8 people

    The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    David S. Landes · 1999

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
    8 people

    The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

    Saifedean Ammous · 2018

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
    8 people

    Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

    Brad Smith · 2019

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
    8 people

    The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

    Patrick Lencioni · 1900

    8 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Gertner, Jon 1st (first) edition [Hardcover(2012)]
    7 people

    The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Gertner, Jon 1st (first) edition [Hardcover(2012)]

    Jon Gertner · 2012

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Hooked
    7 people

    Hooked

    Nir Eyal & Ryan Hoover · 2014

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
    7 people

    Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

    Shane Snow · 2014

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
    7 people

    Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

    J. Helyar B. Burrough · 2005

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
    7 people

    The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies

    Chet Holmes · 2007

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • More from Less
    7 people

    More from Less

    Andrew McAfee · 2019

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves
    7 people

    Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves

    Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
    7 people

    The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

    Al Ries · 1994

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Algorithms to Live By
    7 people

    Algorithms to Live By

    Brian Christian · 2016

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
    7 people

    Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

    Jay Abraham · 2001

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop
  • New Power
    7 people

    New Power

    Jeremy Heimans · 2018

    7 recommenders

    AmazonBookshop