# Books ## Strategy > **Creating enduring value and advantage.** - [[$100M Offers]] - reframing selling as the art of value design - [[7 Powers]] - a practical framework for enduring business advantage - [[Better, Simpler Strategy]] - a value-based framework for strategy - [[Competing Against Time]] - how time-based competition transforms growth and profitability - [[Obviously Awesome]] - product positioning so customers instantly get it - [[The Origins of Efficiency]] - how production processes improve and things get cheaper over time - [[Playing to Win]] - strategy as choices on where to play and how to win - [[Retail Disruptors]] - the hard discounter business model and why it works - [[Strategic Logic]] - why profitability belongs to activities, not industries - [[The Formula]] - how networks determine success when performance can't be measured - [[The Heart of Innovation]] - creating conditions for authentic demand ## Numbers > **Measuring, interpreting, and acting on information.** - [[Algorithms to Live By]] - life lessons from computer science - [[The End of Accounting]] - why corporate reporting is broken - [[Everything Is Predictable]] - a guide to Bayesian reasoning - [[Good Stocks Cheap]] - value investing as a practical trade - [[The Haystack Syndrome]] - TOC approach to managing data and information - [[How Finance Works]] - the logic of cash, capital and value - [[What the CEO Wants You to Know]] - the basics of business - [[Prediction Machines]] - the economics of artificial intelligence - [[Why Information Grows]] - the economy as a system for crystallising imagination - [[Why Machines Learn]] - the mathematics of machine learning made accessible ## Action > **Turning decisions into results.** - [[The Brain Audit]] - why customers buy (and why they don't) - [[Bury My Heart at Conference Room B]] - why authentic leadership comes from personal values - [[Crucial Conversations]] - how to have high-stakes conversations without destroying relationships - [[Essentialism]] - the disciplined pursuit of less - [[The Coaching Habit]] - seven questions to stay curious longer and give less advice - [[Death by Meeting]] - why most meetings are painful and how to fix them - [[Faster Cheaper Better]] - reengineering work for performance and customer focus - [[The Fifth Discipline]] - building learning organisations through systems thinking - [[High Performance Habits]] - a framework for sustaining excellence - [[Lean Business Planning]] - planning smarter, with less waste - [[The Logical Thinking Process]] - TOC applied to problem-solving through five logic trees - [[Never Split the Difference]] - negotiation as a process of discovery, not a battle of arguments - [[Nine Lies About Work]] - debunking performance management myths with team-based truth - [[Requisite Organization]] - designing organisations for sustained effectiveness - [[The Science of Selling]] - aligning sales with how the brain makes buying decisions - [[Supercommunicators]] - the learnable skills of meaningful connection - [[The Truth About Employee Engagement]] - why people suffer in their jobs - [[With Winning In Mind]] - the psychology of consistent performance under pressure ## Prediction > **Learning and updating beliefs.** - [[Alchemy]] - the surprising power of irrational thinking - [[Deviate]] - why you don't see reality, only your brain's useful delusions - [[Wanting]] - how mimetic desire shapes what we think we want - [[Antifragile]] - systems that gain from disorder, volatility, and uncertainty - [[Black Box Thinking]] - reframing failure as learning opportunity - [[Dead Companies Walking]] - predictable mistakes that sink businesses - [[Investing for the Long Term]] - an Austrian economic lens on value-driven investing - [[Linked]] - the science of networks - [[Making Sense of Chaos]] - complexity economics and the economy as a complex adaptive system - [[The Most Important Thing]] - investing through cycles with second-level thinking - [[Superforecasting]] - how to improve judgment through method and mindset - [[Systemantics]] - how systems actually work (and why they resist control) - [[Thinking in Systems]] - stocks, flows, feedback loops, and where leverage really lives - [[The Unaccountability Machine]] - the paradox of control - [[Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight]] - complexity science from the Santa Fe Institute ## Foundations > **Building inner discipline and perspective.** - [[The Choice]] - freedom through healing, responsibility and meaning - [[The Courage to Be Disliked]] - Adlerian psychology and the path to freedom - [[The Lessons of History]] - patterns from five millennia of human civilisation - [[Ego Is The Enemy]] - why humility, discipline and purpose matter - [[Richer, Wiser, Happier]] - investment wisdom as a framework for thinking and living - [[Skin in the Game]] - honour as bearing consequences for your decisions - [[Storm In A Teacup]] - understanding the world through everyday physics - [[The War of Art]] - turning pro and overcoming internal resistance