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Book cover of Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Étienne Garbugli Author Of Solving Product: Reveal Gaps, Ignite Growth, and Accelerate Any Tech Product with Customer Research

From Étienne's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Étienne's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Étienne Garbugli Why Étienne loves this book

It's also an excellent read on business strategy, particularly valuable for understanding what strategy isn't.

By Richard Rumelt ,

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9 authors picked Good Strategy Bad Strategy as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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When Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy was published in 2011, it immediately struck a chord, calling out as bad strategy the mish-mash of pop culture, motivational slogans and business buzz speak so often and misleadingly masquerading as the real thing.

Since then, his original and pragmatic ideas have won fans around the world and continue to help readers to recognise and avoid the elements of bad strategy and adopt good, action-oriented strategies that honestly acknowledge the challenges being faced and offer straightforward approaches to overcoming them. Strategy should not be equated with ambition, leadership, vision or planning; rather, it is…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms

Tanya Janca Author Of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding

From Tanya's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Tanya Janca Why Tanya loves this book

I loved that this woman planned out her life so well. I am a planner, and I feel admiration for how dedicated she was to her own plan. I have started using many of her tricks, such as "adopting" a mentor, and ensuring I do not use placating and apologetic language (or, I do it less....). Shellye is pretty darn amazing!

By Shellye Archambeau ,

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2 authors picked Unapologetically Ambitious as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Full of empowering wisdom from one of high tech's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book for readers of Dare to Lead and Start with Why offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals, drawn from the author's own compelling story of how she weathered life's difficulties to build massive success.

Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO. Through the busts and booms of…


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Tanya Janca Author Of Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding

From Tanya's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Tanya's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Tanya Janca Why Tanya loves this book

I love sci-fi space operas. Creative, outrageous, non-stop adventure.

By Christopher Ruocchio ,

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4 authors picked Empire of Silence as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

It was not his war.

On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the…


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Trusting Her Duke by Arietta Richmond,

A Duke with rigid opinions, a Lady whose beliefs conflict with his, a long disputed parcel of land, a conniving neighbour, a desperate collaboration, a failure of trust, a love found despite it all.

Alexander Cavendish, Duke of Ravensworth, returned from war to find that his father and brother had…

Book cover of 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Étienne Garbugli Author Of Solving Product: Reveal Gaps, Ignite Growth, and Accelerate Any Tech Product with Customer Research

From Étienne's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Startup expert Entrepreneur Customer reserach expert

Étienne's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Étienne Garbugli Why Étienne loves this book

Excellent foundational insights on business strategy, clearly explained and supported by compelling stories and examples.

By Hamilton Helmer ,

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1 author picked 7 Powers as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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7 Powers breaks fresh ground by constructing a comprehensive strategy toolset that is easy for you to learn, communicate and quickly apply.Drawing on his decades of experience as a business strategy advisor, active equity investor and Stanford University teacher, Hamilton Helmer develops from first principles a practical theory of Strategy rooted in the notion of Power, those conditions which create the potential for persistent differential returns.Using rich real-world examples, Helmer rigorously characterizes exactly what your business must achieve to create Power. And create Power it must, for without it your business is at risk. He explains why invention always comes…


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