Business & Entrepreneurship.
Build the thing customers ask for twice.
Founding, scaling, leadership, and operations — frameworks from operators who shipped product, met payroll, and lived to write about it.
The Business Owner's Guide to Financial Freedom: What Wall Street Isn't Telling You
Entrepreneurship for engineers and scientists
Dirty Rotten Strategies
100 Million Unnecessary Returns
Future files
Stall points
Contemporary Chief Information Officers
Entrepreneurship strategy
US Taxation of Foreign Income
Perfect phrases for business proposals and business plans
Revolutionary wealth
Bricks to clicks
Building cross-cultural competence
Counterintuitive marketing
Leadership and management issues for a new century
Taxation, Wealth, and Saving
The Kennedy-Johnson Tax Cut
The strategic management of large engineering projects
Global Trends 2005
Taxing women
The Internet strategic plan
The restaurant start-up guide
Bold new world
The future of war
◈ Business & Entrepreneurship FAQ
What's the difference between a business strategy book and a leadership book?
Strategy books focus on the external game — market positioning, competitive advantage, how a business wins the customers it's chasing. Leadership books focus on the internal game — hiring, managing, and getting a team pulling in the same direction. Most operators end up needing both, usually in that order: a strategy worth executing, then the leadership to execute it.
Do you need an MBA to get value out of business books?
No. Business books are written for operators, not just students — most of the enduring ones on strategy, operations, and leadership assume no formal business-school background and build their arguments from real company case studies instead of academic theory.
What's a good first business book for a new founder?
Start with Brian's Picks in this category, above — they're chosen for founders building something now, not for a business-school syllabus.
Are older business books, like ones from the 1980s or 90s, still worth reading?
Often, yes — the mechanics of markets change, but the mechanics of building a team, pricing a product, and staying solvent change more slowly. Use the Era filter above to browse by decade if you want to compare how the advice has shifted over time.