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Chaitan
6 min readAug 23, 2018

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Product Management

  • Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers will Buy — Cindy Alvarez
  • Radical Focus:Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results — Christina Wodtke
  • Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People — Ken Watanabe
  • Confessions of a Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything- Hermann Simon
  • The MoM Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you — Rob Fitzpatrick
  • Ultimate Sales Machine:Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies — Chet Holmes
  • A Spy’s Guide to Thinking — John Braddock
  • A Spy’s Guide to Strategy — John Braddock
  • Dotcom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online — Russel Brunson
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t — Jim Collins
  • Built to Sell:Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You — John Warrilow
  • Creative Strategy Generation: Using Passion and Creativity to Compose Business Strategies That Inspire Action and Growth — Bob Caporale
  • Predictable Revenue:Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com — Aaron Ross, Marylou Tyler
  • High Output Management — Andrew Grove
  • Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback — Dan Olsen
  • The Platform Revolution:How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economyand How to Make Them Work for You — Sangeet Paul Choudary, Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Alstyne
  • Breaking Bad Habits: Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business — Freek Vermeulen
  • Freakonomics — Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
  • The Art of Profitability — Adrian Slywotzky and Scott Mosenson
  • Hey, Whipple Squeeze this: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads — Luke Sullivan
  • The Brain Audit: Why Customers Buy (And Why They Don’t) — Sean D’Souza
  • The Effective Executive — Peter Drucker
  • Challenge your Assumptions, Change Your World — Andy Cohen
  • Be Like Amazon: Even A Lemonade Stand can do it — Jeffrey & Brian Eisenberg
  • This might get me Fired: A Manual for Thriving in the Corporate Entrepreneurial Underground — Gregory Larkin
  • Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
  • Good Strategy Bad Strategy : The Difference and Why it Matters — Richard Rumelt
  • Your First 100: How to Get Your First 100 Repeat Customers (and Loyal, Raving Fans) Buying Your Digital Products Without Sleazy Marketing or Selling Your Soul — Meera Kothand
  • Adaptive Space: How GM and Other Companies are Positively Disrupting Themselves and Transforming into Agile Organizations: How GM and Other Companies are … and Transforming into Agile Organizations — Michael Arena
  • Universal Principles of Design: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design — William Lidwell, Kritina Holden
  • The Art of Thinking in Systems — Steven Schuster
  • The Art of Start — Guy Kawasaki
  • McKinsey Engagement — Paul Friga
  • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts — Annie Duke

Finance and Investing

  • Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! — Robert T Kiyosaki
  • Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom — Robert T Kiyosaki
  • 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-To-1 and How to Find Them — Christopher W Mayer
  • You Can Be a Stock Market Genuis: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market — Joel Greenblatt
  • The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life — JL Collins
  • Financial Statements:A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports — Thomas R Ittelson
  • The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
  • Warren Buffet's Three Favorite Books: A guide to The Intelligent Investor, Security Analysis, and The Wealth of Nations — Preston George Pysh

Biography, Stories

  • Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone — Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols, Bill Gates
  • Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — Ashlee Vance
  • Sam Walton: Made in America — Sam Walton, John Huey
  • The Snow Ball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life — Alice Shroeder
  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon — Brad Stone
  • The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World — Brad Stone
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win — Jocko Willink
  • Principles: Life and Work — Ray Dalio
  • Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal — Nick Bilton
  • Living with a Seal: 1 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet — Jesse Itzler
  • Lone Survivor — Marcus Luttrell
  • Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America’s Eyeballs — Gina Keating
  • Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble — Dan Lyons
  • Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine — Antonio Garcia Martinez
  • Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality — Bill Kilday

Writing

  • Writing on the right side of the brain Workbook — Daniel Mega
  • On Writing well : An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction — William Zinsser
  • 5000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter — Chris Fox
  • Elements of Style — William Strunk Jr

Innovation and Creativity

  • Who do you want your customers to become? — Michael Schrage
  • Invent (Almost) Anything — David Straker, Graham Rawlinson
  • The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Beating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization — Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman
  • Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques — Michael Michalko
  • A Technique for Producing Ideas — James Young
  • Become an Idea Machine- Claudia Azula Altucher
  • Fifty Things that made up the modern Economy — Tim Harford
  • Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Opposable Mind — Roger Martin
  • Non-Obvious — Rohit Bhargava
  • The Inevitables — Kevin Kelley
  • Where Good Ideas Come From — Steven Johnson

Communication

  • Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World where Facts don’t matter — Scott Adams
  • What Everybody is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People- Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
  • Getting More: How you can negotiate to succeed in Work & Life — Diamond Stuart
  • Never Split the Difference :Negotiating as if your life depended on it — Chris Vox
  • Unfolding the Napkin: The hands on method for solving complex problems with simple pictures — Dan Roam
  • The Agenda Mover: When your good idea is not enough — Samuel B
  • Rejection Proof: How I beat fear and became invincible — Jiang Jia
  • Exactly What to Say: Phil M Jones

Mindfulness, Meditation, Stoicism

  • Buddha in Blue Jeans: An Extremely Short Zen Guide to Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha — Tai Sheridan
  • 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works — A True Story — Dan Harris
  • Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) — Tan, Chade-Meng, Goleman, Daniel, Kabat-Zinn, Jon
  • The Untethered Soul:The Journey Beyond yourself — Singer Michael
  • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
  • Ego is the Enemy- Ryan Holiday
  • The Habit of Mindfulness- Sean O’Connor
  • Solve for Happy — Mo Gawdat

Learning How to Learn

  • A Mind for Numbers: How to excel at Math and Science — Barbara Oakley

Angel Investing

  • Angel: How to invest in Technology Startups- Jason Calcanis

Productivity

  • High Performance Habits — Brendon Burchard
  • The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world’s bestselling success books — Gary Keller, Jay Papasan
  • The 80/20 principle — Richard Koch
  • Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking — Shane Snow
  • When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing — Daniel Pink

Life

  • Man’s Search for Meaning- Viktor Frankl
  • The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
  • The Obstacle is the Way — Ryan Holiday
  • Think and Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill
  • Mastery — Robert Greene
  • As a Man Thinketh: Classic Wisdom for Proper Thought, Strong Character, & Right Actions — James Allen
  • A Connection Algorithm — Jesse Tevelow
  • The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters — Peter Block
  • How will you measure your life? — Clayton Christensen
  • With Winning in Mind — Lanny Basham
  • The Subtle Art of Not giving a F*ck — Mark Manson
  • Obvious Adams — Robert Updegraff
  • The Go-Giver- Bo Burg
  • The Moonshot Effect — Lisa Goldman
  • 365 Days with Self Discipline- Martin Meadows
  • Finite and Infinite Games — James Carse
  • Coming Alive — Barry Michels
  • Claim Your Power — Mustin Kipp

Passive Income

  • Side Hustle — Chris Guillebeau
  • The Passive Income Playbook — Raza Imam

Capital Allocation

  • Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success — William Thorndike
  • Wealth of Nations-Adam Smith

Asking good questions

  • Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change — Frank Sesno
  • The miniature guide to asking Essential questions — Lina Elder, Richard Paul

Parenting

  • Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility — Foster Kline, Jim Fay

Coaching

  • The Coaching Habit:Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever- Michael Bungay

Fiction

Sum: Forty Tales from Afterlives — David Eagleman

Others

  • Thinking Fast and Slow-Daniel Kahenman
  • You are Not so Smart — David McRaney

Personal Development

Unlimited Power — Tony Robbins

Life’s Amazing Secrets — Gaur Gopal Das

Books to be read

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Chaitan
Chaitan

Written by Chaitan

I love the profession of Product Management that helps me build meaningful relationships with teams and customers. I just can’t get enough of reading!

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