Recommended reading list

Alfred Lin’s 14 Must Reads

• Good to Great (Jim Collins)
• Great by Choice (Jim Collins)
• How the Mighty Fall (James Collins)
• Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
• The Hard Thing About Things (Ben Horowitz)
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Patrick Lencioni)
• Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
• Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Chip Heath)
• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Chip Heath)
• Branded Customer Service (Janelle Barlow)
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Daniel H Pink)
• Talent is Overrated (Geoff Colvin)
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There (Marshal Goldsmith)

Drew Houston’s Essential Reading List

• Founders at Work (Livingston) — entertaining look at a bunch of startups’ early lives
• The Score Takes Care of Itself (Walsh) — one of my favorite books on leadership & culture; how Bill Walsh turned the 49ers around
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz) — excellent book on the messy realities & psychological toll of leadership/management
• Innovator’s Dilemma (Christensen) — classic theory of disruption & why big companies miss critical transitions
• Crossing the Chasm (Moore) — another classic on technology adoption & how to move from early adopters to mainstream
• Peopleware (DeMarco & Lister) — great intro to the fundamentals of building/managing software teams (or any teams doing knowledge work)
• High Output Management (Grove) — Andreessen calls it the “best book on management ever written”
• Only the Paranoid Survive (Grove) — story of disruption and Intel; how to identify & survive strategic inflection points
• The Effective Executive (Drucker) — another classic book on management & personal effectiveness
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack (Munger) — awesome book about attaining wisdom & making sense of the world by Warren Buffet’s long-time partner
• Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim & Mauborgne) — good strategy book on positioning vs competitors
• First, Break All the Rules (Buckingham) — presents themes of what the best managers do based on a bunch of research

Mark Cuban’s “Great Books for Entrepreneurs”

Great Books for Entrepreneurs by Mark Cuban — Product Hunt

14 Books Investors Wish All Startup Founders Had Read

14 Books Investors Wish All Startup Founders Had Read

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