DIY MBA: My Reading List

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!