Books like Good to Great

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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business

Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.

02

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

Peter Thiel · Business

Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.

03

Start with Why

Simon Sinek · Business

Start with Why is Simon Sinek's argument that the most influential leaders and organizations in history didn't succeed because they made better products or ran smarter campaigns.

04

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology

Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that exceptional success is less a product of individual genius or drive than it is of hidden advantages, timing, and accumulated opportunity.

05

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries · Business

The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.

06

100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

Christopher Mayer · Business

Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.