I like books. At ClearPurpose, I often write brief reviews of books I’ve recently read. So far, I’ve written 74 reviews and those reviews are usually pretty positive — likely due to selection bias. But which books have actually been the most helpful to me in understanding and explaining business? In my various articles at ClearPurpose, I’ve referenced 134 different books.
Here are the 10 I’ve referenced the most (along with the links to the articles that reference each book):
- Built to Last (2020–07–01, 2020–07–24, 2020–08–11, 2020–08–17, 2022–03–14)
- Competitive Strategy (2020–06–28, 2020–07–01, 2020–07–27, 2020–09–03, 2022–07–19)
- Competing for the Future (2020–04–13, 2020–04–22, 2020–08–04, 2022–02–28, 2022–03–14)
- The Lean Startup (2020–04–24, 2020–05–12, 2021–03–11, 2021–03–27, 2022–10–25)
- Traction (2021–12–24, 2022–01–05, 2022–07–11, 2022–07–19, 2022–08–02)
- The Startup Owners Manual (2020–04–24, 2020–04–29, 2020–05–13, 2020–08–25, 2020–09–04, 2021–03–05)
- Business Model Generation (2020–04–06, 2020–04–08, 2020–04–15, 2020–04–23, 2020–04–23, 2020–05–01, 2020–07–01, 2020–09–10, 2022–07–19, 2022–10–25)
- Blue Ocean Strategy (2020–04–06, 2020–04–20, 2020–05–28, 2020–05–29, 2020–07–01, 2020–09–01, 2021–04–26, 2021–09–30, 2022–03–14, 2022–09–05, 2022–12–30)
- Value Proposition Design (2020–04–06, 2020–04–08, 2020–04–15, 2020–04–23, 2020–04–27, 2020–04–28, 2020–08–27, 2020–09–04, 2021–02–20, 2021–03–13, 2021–11–26, 2022–09–05, 2022–10–25)
- The Bible (2020–04–06, 2020–04–21, 2020–04–23, 2020–04–29, 2020–05–11, 2020–05–12, 2020–08–18, 2020–08–19, 2020–08–20, 2020–09–02, 2022–02–14, 2022–03–21, 2022–04–04, 2022–05–02, 2022–05–30, 2022–09–09)