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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz, Kevin Kenerly, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Robert T. Kiyosaki

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

Gino Wickman

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

John Warrillow, Erik Synnestvedt, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Professional Chef

The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Scott Adams

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

Morgan Housel, Chris Hill, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

SPIN Selling

Neil Rackham

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

Christian Brose and Hachette Books

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Josh Kaufman and Worldly Wisdom Ventures LLC

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say--and What You Don't

L. David Marquet and Penguin Audio

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Basic Economics

Thomas Sowell

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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solresolonApr 12, 2021

There's nothing wrong with what you, by the way. You are forging your own path and you will find some obscure niche that no-one cares about which turns out to be lucrative enough to keep you occupied. It will all work out in the end.

Yours is the sort of background where getting an MBA (or equivalent) might be helpful, and would be a nice combination with tech skills + understanding of business in general. If nothing else. you would quickly find yourself above the "thermocline of effort" where you get paid a lot for not doing all that much work, which might fit your goals. A gentle first step to see if this might work for you would be reading "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman.

haser_auonJuly 13, 2021

I asked the same question a few years ago (tech background, needed to uplift my business knowledge/lingo). The response was "you should find a way to obtain the knowledge of an MBA, without having to do one".

As a result of searching a few years back, I ended up buying a copy of "The Personal MBA" and reading it through. This comes with the list of 99 business books, listed here; https://personalmba.com/best-business-books/

* I have no affiliation with the site, author or book. I'm just speaking from my personal experience and the benefit of business knowledge this gave me.

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