Business and startups

Kim and Mauborgne show how companies escape price wars by creating new market space where competition does not matter yet. For managers and founders stuck in crowded markets.

• Business and startups

A former FBI hostage negotiator's playbook for everyday negotiation, built on tactical empathy, mirroring, labeling and calibrated questions. For anyone who negotiates pay, deals or family decisions.

• Business and startups
• Communication and persuasion

Robert Greene's guide to how power works, built from 48 laws illustrated by stories from court life, war and business. For readers who want to recognize and handle power games.

• Business and startups
• Psychology

Richard Koch shows how a small share of causes produces most results, and how to use that imbalance in business and life. For people who want to do less but achieve more.

• Business and startups
• Productivity

Eric Jorgenson collects Naval Ravikant's ideas on building wealth and finding happiness from his tweets, talks and podcasts. For anyone who wants a short, practical philosophy of work and life.

• Business and startups
• Money and investing
• Philosophy and stoicism

Eric Ries's method for building new products under extreme uncertainty: test ideas fast with real customers, measure what matters and pivot early. For founders and product teams.

• Business and startups

A short parable about two mice and two tiny people in a maze who lose their cheese. For anyone who faces change at work or at home and wants a simple way to adapt.

• Business and startups
• Self-improvement

Peter Thiel's case for building new things instead of copying old ones: why great companies are monopolies, how to find secrets and what every startup must get right. For founders and investors.

• Business and startups