Strategy & Business Models
Strategic thinking, competitive advantage, and business model design
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13 books
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
The difference and why it matters. Rumelt cuts through the fluff to show what real strategy looks like: a clear diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions.
Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Chan Kim
How to create uncontested market space and make competition irrelevant. Kim and Mauborgne show how to break out of competitive red oceans into profitable blue oceans.
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
Why great companies fail when facing disruptive innovation. Christensen explains why successful companies often miss disruptive technologies and how to avoid the same fate.
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore
Marketing and selling high-tech products to mainstream customers. Moore explains the gap between early adopters and the mainstream market, and how to cross it.
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder
A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Osterwalder introduces the Business Model Canvas, a visual tool for designing and iterating on business models.
Competing Against Luck
Clayton Christensen
The story of innovation and customer choice. Christensen applies Jobs to Be Done theory to explain why customers hire products and how to innovate successfully.
How strategy really works. The five essential strategic choices framework: winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems. Used by Lafley to double P&G's sales and quadruple profits.
The Strategy Paradox
Michael Raynor
Why committing to success leads to failure and what to do about it. Raynor explains why the same bold commitments that drive success also create the risk of failure.
7 Powers
Hamilton Helmer
The foundations of business strategy. Helmer identifies the seven sources of sustainable competitive advantage and how to build them.
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andy Grove
How to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company. Intel's legendary CEO shares how to recognize and navigate strategic inflection points.
Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
Michael Masterson
Zero to $100 million growth framework for entrepreneurs. Masterson identifies four distinct stages of business growth and the different strategies, skills, and focus required to succeed at each stage.
Collected writings and insights from Jeff Bezos spanning two decades at Amazon. Explores long-term thinking, customer obsession, innovation culture, and the principles behind one of history's most successful companies.
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
A practical guide to decision-making under uncertainty from poker champion Annie Duke. Learn to embrace probabilistic thinking and make better choices when you don't have all the facts.