Below is a list of books we recommend (and have read): 

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Career and Life Planning

• The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, By Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha

• Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters , By Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson

• Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, By Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker

• The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure, Grant Cardone

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, By Charles Duhigg

• The Habit Factor by Martin Grunburg

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Health & Break Bad Ones, James Clear

• Grit, The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth 

• Big Magic, Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert 

• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It, By Chris Voss

• Know Can Do! Put Your Know-How Into Action – by Dick Ruhe, Ken Blanchard, and Paul Meyer

• Make Big Happen: How to Live, Work, and Give Big, By Mark Moses

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck

• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, Sheryl Sandberg

• What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Not Fail?: How to Transform Fear into Courage, by Nina Lesowitz and Susan Schorn

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein

• Vivid Vision:  A Remarkable Tool for Aligning Your Business Around a Shared Vision of the Future, Cameron Harold

• Think & Grow Rich, By Napoleon Hill

• Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant, Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom, Robert T Kiyosaki

• Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You, John Warrilow

• The Private Equity Playbook, Management's Guide to Working with Private Equity, Adam Coffey

• Buy Then Build, How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart The Start-up, Walker Deibel

• The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.: Elaine Pofeldt

• The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now, Meg Jay

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Scaling

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

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't, Jim Collins

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, By Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

• E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company, By Michael E. Gerber

• Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, By Gino Wickman

• High Growth Handbook, Scaling startups from 10 to 10,000 people, Elad Gil

• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building a Business, Reid Hoffman

• Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com, By Marylou Tyler, Aaron Ross

• Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry, John Warrillow

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Leadership

• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek

• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller

• Fish! A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin, John Christensen, Harry Paul

• The One Minute Manager – Ken Blanchard

• The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business – Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, Ethan Willis

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, By Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

• Who: The A Method for Hiring, By Geoff Smart, Randy Street

• Measure What Matters, How Google, Bono and Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRS, John Doerr

• Daring Greatly, How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Brene Brown

• Emotional Intelligence 2.0, By Travis Bradberry, & Jean Graves

• Get Real: The Power of Genuine Leadership, a Transparent Culture, and an Authentic You, Anna Crowe​

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Investing & Funding

• Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups, By David S. Rose

• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

• Slicing Pie, Funding Your Company Without Funds, Mike Moyer

 

Technology

• The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, Erik Brynjolfsson

• Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era, James Barrat

• Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World – By Don and Alex Tapscott

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Life Design

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, Mark Manson

• Stop Doing That Sh*t, Gary John Bishop

• How to Run Away From Home: And Bring Your Family With You, Adam Dailey

• The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms, Vishen Lakhiani

• How Will Your Measure Your Life, Clayton Christensen

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find-and Keep-Love, Amir Levin and Rachel Heller

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Biographies

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight

• Losing My Virginity, Richard Branson

• Trailblazer, The Power of Business at The Greatest Platform for Change, Mark Benioff

• Can't Hurt Me, Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, David Goggins

• The Ride of A Lifetime, Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Bob Iger

• Bad Blood, Secrets & Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou

• Delivering Happiness A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, Tony Hsieh

• The Everything Store : Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, Brad Stone

• Little Black Stretchy Pants, Chip Wilson

• Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, Howard Schultz

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Impact

• The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems, By William Eggers, Paul Macmillan

• The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers, Paul Polak

• Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, Paul Polak

• Start Something that Matter, Blake Mycoskie

• Half The Sky Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas Kristof

• Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus

• The Promise of A Pencil, How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, Adam Braun

• $2.00 a Day: Living On Almost Nothing In America, Kathryn Edin

• Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and The World, Paul Shapiro

• Give Work, By Leila Janah

• Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman, Miki Agrawal 

• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg

• We Can: The Executive Woman's Guide to Career Advancement, Robin Toft

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