- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
- Creation: Life and How to Make It by Steve Grand
- Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know by Mark Jeffery
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
- Also a favourite of Evan Williams and Max Levchin
- Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation by James Womack and Daniel Jones
- Memos from the Chairman by Alan Greenberg
- Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
- Also a favourite of Warren Buffett
- The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
- Also a favourite of Tim Ferriss and Guy Kawasaki
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- Also a favourite of Mark Cuban, Macolm Gladwell, Steve Jobs, Guy Kawasaki, Evan Williams and Max Levchin
- The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro