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Top Business Books of 2020: A Recommended List for Founders and Business Leaders
The year 2020 witnessed the launch of some of the most inspiring yet practical books on startups and scaling up. In no particular order, here is a list of books…
Nir Iyal on Indistractable: The opposite of traction is distraction [Interview]
Hooked author, Nir Iyal’s next book Indistractable has been released and we had an opportunity to read the pre-launch copy (review soon). In his new book, Nir Eyal describes how…
Book Review: Crushing It! (By Gary Vaynerchuk)
Gary Vaynerchuk is the founder / CEO of Vaynermedia, a digital media agency which crossed $100mn in revenue in 2016. Gary, if you follow his Youtube channel is quite an…
Skin in the Game Review: For those who need to improve their bullshit detectors
There are two types of people in this world: – One who thinks (Nassim Nicholas) Taleb is an asshole and hate him. – And then there are others who think…
10 of my favourite books for 2017
These are some of my favorites for 2017, I have my reading notes added as well along with some of the books in list: 1. Total Freedom by J Krishnamurti…
Books I Recommend: Santosh Panda.
Santosh Panda is the cofounder and CEO of Explara, the event solutions startup. Santosh has been an entrepreneur for many years and has seen the ups and downs. Which is…
Misbehaving : The Making of Behavioural Economics
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious…
My inventions by Nicola Tesla
Nikolas Tesla’s patents and theoretical work helped form the basis of wireless communication and radio. He is also known for his high-voltage, high-frequency experiments in New York and Colorado Springs,…
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
The book Zero To One is about nurturing the next big idea to build a valuable global company. The author recalls how certain innovative ideas were incubated and how people…
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
‘For most gulls it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.’ Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational…
The Founder’s Mentality by Chris Zook
Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment–find an attractive market,…
Tool of Titans by Tim Ferries
The book contains lessons from highly successful people like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Malcolm Gladwell, Tony Robbins, etc. For every situation that you meet in your life, take a flip of the…
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we’re going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind’s extraordinary history…
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
In The Vital Question, biochemist Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a solution to conundrums that have puzzled generations of scientists. All complex life, from mushrooms to man,…
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of…
Theory of Nothing by Russell Standish
The “Theory of Nothing” explores the radical idea that the reality we see around us is but one of an infinite “library” of alternate realities, the sum of which contains…
