Books like Rework

01

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber · Business

The E-Myth Revisited is Michael Gerber's diagnosis of why most small businesses fail — not because their owners lack technical skill, but because they confuse being good at a craft with knowing how to run a business.

Shares entrepreneurship and operations with Rework.

02

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't

Verne Harnish · Business

Scaling Up is Verne Harnish's update to his earlier Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, substantially revised and expanded to cover the full range of challenges a company faces as it grows from a small entrepreneurial team to a scaled organization.

Shares entrepreneurship and operations with Rework.

03

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone · Business

The Everything Store is Brad Stone's account of Amazon's founding and growth from a book retailer to one of the most powerful companies in the world.

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04

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.

Both dig into startups.

05

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Gino Wickman · Business

Traction introduces the Entrepreneurial Operating System, a practical framework for running a small to mid-sized business with more clarity, accountability, and traction.

Shares entrepreneurship and operations with Rework.

06

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist

Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson · Business

Venture Deals is Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson's guide to understanding venture capital term sheets — the documents that define the economic and control terms of startup funding.

Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Rework.

07

Beyond Entrepreneurship

Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business

Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.

Shares entrepreneurship and strategy with Rework.

08

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · Business

Blitzscaling is Reid Hoffman's argument that certain markets — primarily those with strong network effects and winner-take-most dynamics — reward companies that prioritize speed of growth over efficiency, even at the cost of significant operational risk.

Shares startups and strategy with Rework.

09

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

John Warrillow · Business

Built to Sell is John Warrillow's argument that every business owner — regardless of whether they ever intend to sell — should build their company as if they were going to.

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10

Disciplined Entrepreneurship

Bill Aulet · Business

Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.

Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Rework.

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Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

Brad Feld and David Cohen · Business

Do More Faster is a collection of short essays and lessons drawn from the TechStars accelerator program, organized by Brad Feld and David Cohen, the program's co-founders.

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12

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

Jessica Livingston · Business

Founders at Work is Jessica Livingston's collection of interviews with the founders of some of the most influential technology companies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Shares entrepreneurship and startups with Rework.