# Useful Books Opinionated summaries rather than book reports. | Book | What it's about | | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [[$100M Offers]] | Reframing selling as the art of value design | | [[7 Powers]] | A practical framework for enduring business advantage | | [[Alchemy]] | The surprising power of irrational thinking | | [[Algorithms to Live By]] | Life lessons from computer science | | [[Antifragile]] | Systems that gain from disorder, volatility, and uncertainty | | [[Better, Simpler Strategy]] | A value-based framework for strategy | | [[Black Box Thinking]] | Reframing failure as learning opportunity | | [[The Brain Audit]] | Why customers buy (and why they don't) | | [[Bury My Heart at Conference Room B]] | Why authentic leadership comes from personal values | | [[The Choice]] | Freedom through healing, responsibility and meaning | | [[The Coaching Habit]] | Seven questions to stay curious longer and give less advice | | [[Competing Against Time]] | How time-based competition transforms growth and profitability | | [[The Courage to Be Disliked]] | Adlerian psychology and the path to freedom | | [[Crucial Conversations]] | How to have high-stakes conversations without destroying relationships | | [[Dead Companies Walking]] | Predictable mistakes that sink businesses | | [[Death by Meeting]] | Why most meetings are painful and how to fix them | | [[Deviate]] | Why you don't see reality, only your brain's useful delusions | | [[Ego Is The Enemy]] | Why humility, discipline and purpose matter | | [[The End of Accounting]] | Why corporate reporting is broken | | [[Essentialism]] | The disciplined pursuit of less | | [[Everything Is Predictable]] | A guide to Bayesian reasoning | | [[Exponential Organizations]] | How information-enabled businesses achieve different economics | | [[Faster Cheaper Better]] | Reengineering work for performance and customer focus | | [[The Fifth Discipline]] | Building learning organisations through systems thinking | | [[The Formula]] | How networks determine success when performance can't be measured | | [[Good Stocks Cheap]] | Value investing as a practical trade | | [[The Haystack Syndrome]] | TOC approach to managing data and information | | [[The Heart of Innovation]] | Creating conditions for authentic demand | | [[High Performance Habits]] | A framework for sustaining excellence | | [[How Finance Works]] | The logic of cash, capital and value | | [[Investing for the Long Term]] | An Austrian economic lens on value-driven investing | | [[Lean Business Planning]] | Planning smarter, with less waste | | [[The Lessons of History]] | Patterns from five millennia of human civilisation | | [[Lessons From the Titans]] | How industrial compounders build enduring value through operational discipline | | [[Linked]] | The science of networks | | [[The Logical Thinking Process]] | TOC applied to problem-solving through five logic trees | | [[Making Sense of Chaos]] | Complexity economics and the economy as a complex adaptive system | | [[The Most Important Thing]] | Investing through cycles with second-level thinking | | [[Never Split the Difference]] | Negotiation as a process of discovery, not a battle of arguments | | [[Nine Lies About Work]] | Debunking performance management myths with team-based truth | | [[Obviously Awesome]] | Product positioning so customers instantly get it | | [[The Origins of Efficiency]] | How production processes improve and things get cheaper over time | | [[Playing to Win]] | Strategy as choices on where to play and how to win | | [[Prediction Machines]] | The economics of artificial intelligence | | [[Requisite Organization]] | Designing organisations for sustained effectiveness | | [[Retail Disruptors]] | The hard discounter business model and why it works | | [[Richer, Wiser, Happier]] | Investment wisdom as a framework for thinking and living | | [[The Science of Selling]] | Aligning sales with how the brain makes buying decisions | | [[Skin in the Game]] | Honour as bearing consequences for your decisions | | [[Storm In A Teacup]] | Understanding the world through everyday physics | | [[Strategic Logic]] | Why profitability belongs to activities, not industries | | [[Supercommunicators]] | The learnable skills of meaningful connection | | [[Superforecasting]] | How to improve judgment through method and mindset | | [[Systemantics]] | How systems actually work (and why they resist control) | | [[Thinking in Systems]] | Stocks, flows, feedback loops, and where leverage really lives | | [[The Truth About Employee Engagement]]| Why people suffer in their jobs | | [[The Unaccountability Machine]] | The paradox of control | | [[Wanting]] | How mimetic desire shapes what we think we want | | [[The War of Art]] | Turning pro and overcoming internal resistance | | [[What the CEO Wants You to Know]] | The basics of business | | [[Why Information Grows]] | The economy as a system for crystallising imagination | | [[Why Machines Learn]] | The mathematics of machine learning made accessible | | [[With Winning In Mind]] | The psychology of consistent performance under pressure | | [[Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight]] | Complexity science from the Santa Fe Institute |