100 Books: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business

The age of agile: how smart companies are transforming the way work gets done

from Steve Denning

An unstoppable business revolution is under way--and it is Agile. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agil...

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

from John P. Kotter, Holger Rathgeber

Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple story about doing well under the stress and uncertainty of rapid change. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard...

Scaling Up: how a few companies make it... and why the rest don't

from Verne Harnish

It’s been over a decade since Verne Harnish’s best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits was first released. Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habit...

Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values

from Fred Kofman

Consciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business, explains Fred Kofman, means finding your passion and expressing your...

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

from Dan Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock

Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the we...

The startup way

from Eric Ries

In The Startup Way, the author turns his attention to a new group of organizations: iconic multinationals like GE and Toyota, Silicon Valley tech tit...

How finance works: the HBR guide to thinking smart about the numbers

from Mihir A. Desai

If you’re not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you’ll need to mak...

The customer-funded business: start, finance, or grow your company with your customers' cash

from John Mullins

But the vast majority of fast-growing companies never take any venture capital. So where does the money come from to startand grow their companies? Fr...

Testing business ideas: a field guide for rapid experimentation

from Alexander Osterwalder y David J. Bland

7 out of 10 new products fail to deliver on expectations. Testing Business Ideas aims to reverse that statistic. In the tradition of Alex Osterwalder�...