Books like The E-Myth Revisited

01

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 The E-Myth Revisited.

02

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.

03

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz · Business

The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.

A kindred business read.

04

Rework

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business

Rework is Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson's deliberately provocative argument against most conventional wisdom about building a business.

Shares entrepreneurship and operations with The E-Myth Revisited.

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 operations with The E-Myth Revisited.

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 operations with The E-Myth Revisited.

07

The E-Myth Enterprise

Michael E. Gerber · Business

The E-Myth Enterprise is Michael Gerber's follow-up to The E-Myth Revisited, and it extends his argument about why small businesses fail into the broader question of what it takes to build what he calls a "World Class Company." Where The E-Myth Revisited focused on the technician-manager-entrepreneur split and the importance of working on the business rather than in it, The E-Myth Enterprise focuses on the enterprise as an idea — as a system for creating value that transcends the founder's personal involvement.

Shares entrepreneurship and small business with The E-Myth Revisited.

08

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.

Shares entrepreneurship and operations with The E-Myth Revisited.

09

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox · Business

The Goal is a business novel — written as fiction to make operational management ideas accessible — that introduced the Theory of Constraints to a broad audience.

Shares systems thinking and operations with The E-Myth Revisited.

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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford · Business

The Phoenix Project is a business novel — structured like The Goal, which it explicitly acknowledges — that applies the Theory of Constraints and lean manufacturing principles to IT operations and software delivery.

Shares systems thinking and operations with The E-Myth Revisited.

11

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.

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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 systems thinking.