Getting It Done: How to Lead When You Are Not in Charge focuses on the challenges of leading and influencing others Read more
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Deal Guide’s Bookshelf
Perfect for the reader who may not wish to read the dry and sometimes unstructured thoughts on social reasoning by Read more
Written by John Braddock, a former CIA case officer, A Spy’s Guide to Thinking offers a pragmatic approach to using Read more
The McKinsey Mindset, written by McKinsey alumni Ethan Rasiel and Paul Friga, provides a comprehensive guide to the Read more
The McKinsey Mindset, written by McKinsey alumni Ethan Rasiel and Paul Friga, provides a comprehensive guide to the Read more
Anders Ericsson, the author who identified deliberate practice as the key to performance in many specialist Read more
Seeking Wisdom is, quite aptly, the result of author Peter Bevelin’s search for wisdom. He has studied the practice of Read more
Chip War can easily be described as a history of the silicon chip industry. In doing so, one is likely to gloss over Read more
Best-selling author, Seth Godin, has written several books on marketing, leadership, and business, and offers a Read more
Thinking, Fast and Slow is the culmination of five decades of research in the domain of behavioral economics. Read more
Any forecaster worth his salt knows one thing about a prediction once it is set: that it is wrong. The question facing Read more
Chris Voss is an expert negotiator. Although he may have never sat on the board of a major investment committee Read more
In Measure What Matters, venture capitalist John Doerr shares the famed Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) system Read more
The word “disrupt” has become yet another term to be used in business buzzword bingo. Clayton Christensen’s Read more
Einhorn details taking a market bet against Allied Capital based on his diligence and subsequent belief that the Read more
The Box shares the story of how shipping containers revolutionized the world’s ability to buy and sell around the Read more
Michael Watkins is a senior advisor and coach for C-suite executives, and in his book The First 90 Days he offers Read more
The Psychology of Money offers a different approach to financial literacy, health, and investment decisions. Read more
Written by two longtime Amazon executives, Working Backwards illuminates some of the frameworks Read more
This book is based on a set of notes taken from a lecture series given by famed Silicon Valley investor and member Read more
Energy giant Enron’s fall from grace is one of the defining events of the early millennium economy. Written Read more
Information Rules was written as the dot com boom was underway in 1999. Over two decades later, it remains a Read more
Written by two longtime Amazon executives, Working Backwards illuminates some of the frameworks Read more
Blue Ocean Strategy emphasizes value differentiation in value creation and customer acquisition. Read more
Gorick Ng went from being the first in his family to attend college to working for a top management consulting firm Read more
High Growth Handbook is written for the startup audience and lower middle market business owners looking to Read more
Grandmaster in chess and world champion in Tai Chi Chuan (martial form of Tai Chi) Josh Waitzkin has spent a Read more
Behavioral economist John List describes “high voltage” businesses as concepts that can be replicated at scale. Read more
Basic high school statistics would lead one to believe that much of the world exists within a normal distribution. Read more
The classic model of technology within a capitalist system is that goods, products, and services in the aggregate Read more
With applications for readers who both do and don’t play tennis, Timothy Gallwey’s book The Inner Game readers Read more
Basic high school statistics would lead one to believe that much of the world exists within a normal distribution. Read more
Despite its original publication date of 1987, The Pyramid Principle tackles an essential skill for deal professionals… Read more
One of the most directly applicable books on the Deal Sherpa’s bookshelf is this volume by Howard Marks, the… Read more
Veteran journalist Bo Burlingham shares the stories of roughly a dozen different businesses who chose not to… Read more
Turning the Flywheel is an accompaniment to Jim Collins’ book Good to Great where he introduces the concept of the… Read more
Since the late 1990s, McKinsey has popularized the sentiment that businesses are in a war for talent. Despite… Read more
This book on decision-making is authored by world champion poker player Annie Duke, whose career in poker… Read more
Phil Knight’s memoir details his experience going from business-school graduate and salesmen selling shoes out… Read more
Author and computer science professor, Cal Newport, studies the intersection of digital technology and culture… Read more
In the fourth installment of his stoic virtues series, Ryan Holiday explores the power of discipline and self-control… Read more
Navy SEAL veterans and founders of Echelon Front, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin, detail the successful strategies… Read more
Alvin Roth is a Nobel-prize winning economist who helped design crucial matching systems with great… Read more
Using his time as commander of a Joint Special Operations Command during the War on Terror as the backdrop… Read more
Oxford professor Brent Flyvbjerg spent his career studying the process of planning, building, and completing… Read more
Atul Gawande is one of the world’s most prominent surgical oncologists and a deeply insightful writer on the… Read more
Delivered in an illustrated format, What Is Strategy? condenses business strategist Michael Porter’s influential… Read more
