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The Effective Executive: Summary & Key Lessons

Peter Drucker's five practices for doing the right things — plus what the book gets wrong, who should read it,…

9 years ago

Bill Gates: A Biography Summary

How a college dropout built Microsoft and reshaped personal computing - the making of Bill Gates.

9 years ago

Hooked: Summary & Key Lessons

Nir Eyal's model for building habit-forming products: trigger, action, variable reward, investment.

9 years ago

The Everything Store: Summary & Key Lessons

How Jeff Bezos turned an online bookstore into Amazon through relentless long-term thinking and customer obsession.

9 years ago

Chaos Monkeys: Summary & Key Lessons

A brash, funny, unvarnished tour of Silicon Valley startup life and ad-tech, told from the inside.

9 years ago

Elon Musk: Biography Summary

Ashlee Vance's inside look at the relentless ambition behind Tesla, SpaceX, and Elon Musk himself.

9 years ago

Competitive Strategy: Summary & Key Lessons

Michael Porter's foundational Five Forces framework for sizing up an industry and finding a defensible position.

9 years ago

Business Strategy: Summary & Key Lessons

The Economist's clear guide to the frameworks and trade-offs behind durable business strategy.

9 years ago

The Personal MBA: Summary & Key Lessons

Josh Kaufman distills the useful 80% of a business degree into one readable book - minus the tuition.

9 years ago

Guerrilla Marketing: Summary & Key Lessons

Jay Conrad Levinson's classic on winning outsized attention on a tiny budget.

9 years ago