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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 106,319 ratings
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Confessions of an Advertising Man
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David Ogilvy
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 744 ratings
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
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Tony Hsieh
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 9,138 ratings
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
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Howard Schultz
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 3,246 ratings
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Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
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Richard Branson
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 4,787 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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Ron Chernow
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
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Jim Collins
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 32,028 ratings
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The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary Into Extraordinary
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Joseph A. Michelli
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 1,309 ratings
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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Alice Schroeder
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 5,854 ratings
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Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
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Bo Burlingham
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 574 ratings
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Made In America
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Sam Walton
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 1,581 ratings
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Start Something That Matters
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Blake Mycoskie
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 1,631 ratings
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 3,957 ratings
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Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
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Michael D'Antonio
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 233 ratings
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The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
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Christopher Hibbert
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
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David A. Price
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
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Tom Kelley
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,360 ratings
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Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
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Ken Auletta
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
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Grinding It Out: The Making Of McDonald's
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Ray Kroc
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World
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David Kirkpatrick
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 2,800 ratings
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Jim Collins
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 10,519 ratings
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One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
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Richard L. Brandt
3.32 of 5 stars 3.32 avg rating — 741 ratings
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Rework
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Jason Fried
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 16,388 ratings
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-And Revolutionized an Industry
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Marc Benioff
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 293 ratings
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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Bethany McLean
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 3,444 ratings
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Control Switch On: The Untold Story Of The Most Powerful Man In The World-Ryan Moran-Who Shaped The Planet For Peace
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Ira Teller (Goodreads Author)
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Madvertising: 1975-1985, the inside story of advertising wildest decade
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Martyn Forrester
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Walking the Tycoons' Rope: How ambition drove a poor boy from Ningbo to compete with the richest men of Hong Kong and Singapore
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Robert Wang
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
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Tim Parks
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Lights, Camera, Jemuru: Adventures of a Film-Maker in Ethiopia
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Bob Maddams (Goodreads Author)
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
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Bill Walsh
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Die Fugger
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Mark Häberlein
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Fugger und der Duft des Goldes: Die Entstehung des Kapitalismus
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Harald Parigger
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History
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Malcolm Balen
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story about God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables
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Phil Vischer
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 482 ratings
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
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Niall Ferguson
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 232 ratings
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999
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Niall Ferguson
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job
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Dennis W. Bakke (Goodreads Author)
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
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Charles R. Morris
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 196 ratings
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The Simple Truth About Your Business: Why Focused and Steady Beats Business at the Speed of Light
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Alex Brennan-Martin
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
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Derek Sivers
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
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Bob Lutz
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 220 ratings
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
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Muhammad Yunus
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 4,054 ratings
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Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
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Jeff Ryan
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 609 ratings
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The Google Guys: Inside the Brilliant Minds of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
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Richard L. Brandt
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 112 ratings
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How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
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Jim Collins
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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Jack: Straight from the Gut
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Jack Welch
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 3,283 ratings
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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
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Jim Collins
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 2,126 ratings
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The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
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Ben Mezrich
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 6,887 ratings
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Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
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Bill Gates
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
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Sam Calagione
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Idea Man
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Paul Allen
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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Bryan Burrough
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 5,974 ratings
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
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Eric Ries (Goodreads Author)
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 7,158 ratings
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Nuts!
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Kevin Freiberg
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
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Erin Arvedlund
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation
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Jay Elliot
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 759 ratings
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iWoz
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Steve Wozniak
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 3,130 ratings
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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress
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Douglas G. Brinkley (Editor)
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
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Jeffrey K. Liker
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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Michael Lewis
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 1,763 ratings
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