Personal MBA - Business Book Notes
By Josh Kaufman
This page contains Josh Kaufman's personal notes on Personal MBA-recommended business books, as well as reviews of other useful business-related texts. If you have a book to recommend, please see my book review policy.
Personal MBA Book Notes
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman
- Fail Safe Investing - Harry Browne
- Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
- Driven - Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
- Making Sense of Behavior - William T. Powers
- Brain Rules - John Medina
- The Power of Full Engagement - Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
- Bit Literacy - Mark Hurst
- The 80/20 Principle - Richard Koch
- The Power of Less - Leo Babauta
- Getting Things Done - David Allen
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 - Tom Rath
- 10 Days to Faster Reading - Abby Marks-Beale
- Go It Alone - Bruce Judson
Personal MBA Business Book Reviews
- 10 Days to Faster Reading by Abby Marks-Beale
- 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner & James Harter
- 3-D Negotiation by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius
- A Guide to the Good Life by William Braxton Irvine
- Accidental Genius by Mark Levy
- Accounting Made Simple by Mike Piper
- All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
- Bankable Business Plans by Edward Rogoff
- Bargaining For Advantage by G. Richard Shell
- Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst
- Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
- Brain Rules by John Medina
- Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter
- Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al
- Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
- Driven by Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
- Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim
- Ethics for the Real World by Ronald Howard & Clinton Korver
- Fail-Safe Investing by Harry Browne
- First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
- Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Go It Alone by Bruce Judson
- Growing Great Employees by Erika Andersen
- Hire With Your Head by Lou Adler
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- How to Make Millions with Your Ideas by Dan Kennedy
- How to Read a Financial Report by John A. Tracy
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
- Indispensable by Joe Calloway
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker
- Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale
- Lean Thinking by James Womack and Daniel Jones
- Learning from the Future by Liam Fahey & Robert Randall
- Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
- Making Sense of Behavior by William T. Powers
- Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun
- Marketing Metrics by Paul W. Farris et al
- Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
- Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff
- Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
- Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies by Nikos Mourkogiannis
- Re-Create Your Life by Morty Lefkoe
- Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson
- Results Without Authority by Tom Kendrick
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg
- Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen et al
- Self-Directed Behavior by David L. Watson & Roland G. Tharp
- Show Me The Numbers by Stephen Few
- Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits by Greg Crabtree
- Smart Choices by John S. Hammond et al
- Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein
- SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
- The 1% Windfall by Rafi Mohammed
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
- The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn
- The Copywriter’s Handbook by Robert Bly
- The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
- The Economist Numbers Guide by Richard Stuteley
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
- The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt
- The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
- The Knack by Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance by Robert A. Cooke
- The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley & William Danko
- The New Business Road Test by John Mullins
- The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan by George Bradt et al
- The Partnership Charter by David Gage
- The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz
- The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
- The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
- The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy
- The Simplicity Survival Handbook by Bill Jensen
- The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
- The Unwritten Laws of Business by W.J. King
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Thinking Statistically by Uri Bram
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Total Leadership by Stewart Friedman
- Tribes by Seth Godin
- Turning Numbers Into Knowledge by Jonathan Koomey
- Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell et al
- Value-Based Fees by Alan Weiss
- Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
- Work the System by Sam Carpenter
- Your Money or Your Life by Joel Dominguez & Vicki Robin
