The Entrepreneur's Bookshelf A list of useful books for founders and entrepreneurs.

STRATEGY The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company - Steve Blank The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses - Eric Ries Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers - Geoffrey A. Moore Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant - W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich - Timothy Ferriss Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup - Bill Aulet The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - Clayton M. Christensen The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup - Noam Wasserman Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel    BIOGRAPHIES Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg Jack: Straight from the Gut - Jack Welch Iacocca: An Autobiography - Lee Iacocca The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - Alice Schroeder Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution - Walter Isaacson Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet - Katie Hafner Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer - Michael Swaine & Paul Freiberger    SELF IMPROVEMENT The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen The Power of Positive Thinking - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life - Spencer Johnson The One Minute Manager - Kenneth H. Blanchard

CASE STUDIES Business Adventures: 12 Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street - John Brooks The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Jeffrey Liker The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose - Tony Hsieh How Google Works - Eric Schmidt Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age - Michael A. Hiltzik Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company - Andrew S. Grove Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies - Jim Collins    COMMUNICATION & NEGOTIATION How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High - Kerry Patterson Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Roger Fisher Taming The Abrasive Manager: How To End Unnecessary Roughness In The Workplace - Laura Crawshaw The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't - Robert I. Sutton Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most - Douglas Stone What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School - Mark H. McCormack    PSYCHOLOGY / HUMAN NATURE Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why - Laurence Gonzales The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't - Jim Collins Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner Irrational Exuberance - Robert J. Shiller Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip Heath