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Business & Leadership book summaries

The best business and leadership book summaries — strategy, management, startups, and negotiation, distilled.

The 48 Laws of Power cover

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

4-min read

How to Win Friends and Influence People cover

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

4-min read

The Art of War cover

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

3-min read

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future cover

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

4-min read

Surrounded by Idiots cover

Surrounded by Idiots

Thomas Erikson

5-min read

Steve Jobs cover

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

3-min read

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future cover

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance

4-min read

Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life cover

Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Spencer Johnson

2-min read

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It cover

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Chris Voss and Tahl Raz

4-min read

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion cover

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

4-min read

The Lean Startup cover

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

3-min read

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich cover

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Tim Ferriss

4-min read

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action cover

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

Simon Sinek

2-min read

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business cover

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Josh Kaufman

4-min read

Outliers: The Story of Success cover

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

3-min read

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike cover

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

3-min read

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant cover

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson and Naval Ravikant

4-min read

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High cover

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

3-min read

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz

4-min read

Rework cover

Rework

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

3-min read

Leaders Eat Last cover

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

5-min read

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference cover

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

3-min read

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't cover

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

Jim Collins

3-min read

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel H. Pink

3-min read

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism cover

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

Olivia Fox Cabane

3-min read

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup cover

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

2-min read

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win cover

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

4-min read

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done cover

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

Peter F. Drucker

6-min read

High Output Management cover

High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

4-min read

Radical Candor cover

Radical Candor

Kim Malone Scott

4-min read

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead cover

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sheryl Sandberg

3-min read

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking cover

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

Mehdi Hasan

6-min read

Blue Ocean Strategy cover

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

5-min read

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon cover

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone

3-min read

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty cover

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

4-min read

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less cover

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less

Richard Koch

2-min read

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk cover

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Al Ries and Jack Trout

5-min read

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism cover

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Sarah Wynn-Williams

9-min read

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time cover

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz

5-min read

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs cover

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Carmine Gallo

5-min read