DIY MBA: My Reading List
2 min readJul 12, 2019
I’m doing a self-taught DIY MBA (read more). Here’s my work-in-progress reading list, add anything you think I’m missing in the comments.
Accounting & Finance : Completed. Read the module overview
- The 10 Day MBA by Steven Silbiger
- The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting by Grossman & Livingstone
- An online course is probably better than a book, I did this one by Acumen Learning.
Product, Design & Marketing
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan (notes)
- Lean Startup by Eric Ries (notes)
- Hooked: How to Make Habit Forming Products by Nir Eyal (notes)
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (notes)
- Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts by Ryan Holiday
- Marketing: A Love Story by Bernadette Jiwa (notes)
- Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller (notes)
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore (notes)
- Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan (notes)
Organisational Behaviour, Management & Communication
- High Output Management by Andy Grove (notes)
- The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
- Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Herminia Ibarra
- Talking from 9 to 5 by Deborah Tannen
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz.
- Resilient Management by Lara Hogan
- Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
Global Economics & Investing
- Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
- Economics: A User’s Guide by Ha-Joon Chang
- Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the World by Dambisa Moyo
- Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Strategy & Systems Thinking
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
- Platform Scale by Sangeet Paul Choudary (notes)
- 7 Powers: Foundations of Business by Hamilton Helmer (notes)
- Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
- Certain to Win by Chet Richards
- Getting the Right Things Done by Pascal Dennis
- Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
- Theory in Practice by Chris Argyris & Donald Schön
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter Senge
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Creativity & Getting Stuff Done
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
- A Beautiful Constraint by Adam Morgan & Mark Barden
- Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon
- Finite and Infinite Games by James P Carse
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
Have I missed anything? Are there better alternatives to these? Let me know with a comment!