Like a lot of people, I made a New Year's resolution to read more books this year. I always try to have a nice balance between leadership/professional development books, as well as those purely for entertainment. To help me build up my library of books on entrepreneurship and leadership, one of my favorite questions for founders, VCs, and others in leadership roles is "what books have been most valuable for your professional journey?"
Here are a few that have been highly recommended to me over the past few years. What other recommendations should I add?
- Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Herminia Ibarra
- Difficult Conversations, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
- Finding the Way, Cap Treeger
- Good to Great, Jim Collins
- Lost and Founder, Rand Fishkin
- Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcom Gladwell
- Start with Why, Simon Sinek
- The 6 Types of Working Genius, Patrick M. Lencioni
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
- The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- The Mom Test, Rob Fitzpatrick
- Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- Traction, Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
- What You Know About Startups is Wrong, KP Reddy
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
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