Memoir
Shoe Dog
The founder of Nike tells how a young runner with a crazy idea about Japanese running shoes built a company, and nearly lost it more than once.
Curated list · 8 books
Think like a CEO
Eight highly rated books on the job itself: founding a company, running one, and keeping your nerve when there is no easy answer.
Start with a story if you want to be pulled in, or with Grove if you want a working manual. These are the books operators keep recommending to each other.
Memoir
The Ride of a Lifetime
Fifteen years as Disney's CEO, told as a set of bets: Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Fox, and the kind of optimism it takes to make those calls.
Self-Help & Money
High Output Management
Intel's former CEO treats management as a production process: meetings, one-to-ones and decisions as the levers that multiply a team's output.
Self-Help & Money
Extreme Ownership
Two Navy SEAL officers argue that when a team fails, the leader owns it, then show how that habit works in combat and in a company.
Self-Help & Money
Creativity, Inc.
Pixar's co-founder on how to keep a creative studio honest: candour in the room, protection for half-formed ideas, and a culture that can survive success.
Self-Help & Money
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
A founder who nearly lost his company writes the parts other business books skip: layoffs, hiring, wartime decisions and the loneliness of the top job.
Memoir
Steve Jobs
The authorised life of Apple's co-founder: the taste, the temper, and the insistence that design and technology belong in the same sentence.
Self-Help & Money
Zero to One
A short argument that the valuable companies are the ones that create something new, not the ones that copy what already works.