Books like The E-Myth Enterprise

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 small business with The E-Myth Enterprise.

02

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 growth with The E-Myth Enterprise.

03

Good to Great

Jim Collins · Business

Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?

A kindred business read.

04

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.

A kindred business read.

05

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 organizational design with The E-Myth Enterprise.

06

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.

Shares entrepreneurship and business systems with The E-Myth Enterprise.

07

Free Time

Jenny Blake · Business

Free Time is Jenny Blake's argument that the goal for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small business owners shouldn't be hustle-driven growth but the systematic removal of yourself as the bottleneck.

Shares entrepreneurship and business systems with The E-Myth Enterprise.

08

AI Superpowers

Kai-Fu Lee · Business

AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

09

An Elegant Puzzle

Will Larson · Business

An Elegant Puzzle is Will Larson's guide to the craft of engineering management, written from his experience leading engineering teams at Digg, Uber, and Stripe.

Both dig into organizational design.

10

Anything You Want

Derek Sivers · Business

Anything You Want is Derek Sivers' account of building, running, and eventually selling CD Baby, the independent musician distribution company he founded accidentally in 1998 when a few friends asked him to sell their CDs online.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

11

Behind the Cloud

Marc Benioff · Business

Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.

12

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.

Both dig into entrepreneurship.