RESOURCES

EXECUTIVE MIND-SETS FOR GROWTH

Books

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone, Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, and Jill Tracie Nichols

Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change, Beth Comstock and Tahl Raz

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell

Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss

Unleashing the Innovators: How Mature Companies Find New Life with Startups, Jim Stengel and Tom Post

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe

Talks

“Listen, Learn…Then Lead,” Stanley McChrystal, https://www.ted.com/​talks/​stanley_mcchrystal

“The Power of Experimentation,” Scott Cook https://www.youtube.com/​watch?v=Z0vA6Bsuew0

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Books

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster, Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz

Lean Customer Development: Build Products Your Customers Will Buy, Cindy Alvarez

Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company, Steve Blank and Bob Dorf

The Startup Playbook: Secrets of the Fastest-Growing Startups from Their Founding Entrepreneurs, David Kidder

The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth, Eric Ries

Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs, Larry Keeley, Helen Walters, Ryan Pikkel, and Brian Quinn

TALENT AND PEOPLE

Books

The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life, Susan David

Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters, Anthony Tjan

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth

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

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott

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

Talks

“The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers,” Adam Grant, https://www.ted.com/​talks/​adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers

“Why the Best Hire Might Not Have the Perfect Resume,” Regina Hartley, https://www.ted.com/​talks/​regina_hartley_why_the_best_hire_might_not_have_the_perfect_resume

“Why the Secret to Success Is Setting Good Goals,” John Doerr https://www.ted.com/​talks/​john_doerr_why_the_secret_to_success_is_setting_the_right_goals

“People, Leadership, and Startups,” Bill Campbell, https://youtu.be/​GHLg1wDuc10

DESIGN THINKING

Books

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation, Tim Brown

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom and David Kelley

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage, Roger L. Martin

The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design: Design Kit, IDEO.org

Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World, Tina Seelig

Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration, Scott Doorley, Scott Witthoft, and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows

The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Michael Lewis

VC MIND-SETS AND PRACTICES

Books

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh

High Growth Handbook, Elad Gil

The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing, Robert Finkel and David Greising

Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture, Scott Belsky

The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public, Lynn Stout

Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America, Andrew Yang

The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs, William H. Draper III

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, Annie Duke

Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes, Tarang and Sheetal Shah

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Books

Exploration & Exploitation in Organizational Learning, James March

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton M. Christensen

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Adam Grant

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, Amy C. Edmondson