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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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