The real-world secrets to startup successUnicorn Tears is the smart entrepreneur’s guide to startups. A full 92% of startups fail in the first three years — but failure is not inevitable. Most of these companies self-sabotage, unconsciously eliminating any chance at success before they even get started. It’s not the economy, it’s not politics, it’s not external factors; failure comes from within. This book shows you how to be one of the unicorns — one of t...

Expertise, Experience & Emotion tackles the uncomfortable truth many business books avoid: artificial intelligence is not just changing how work gets done; it is quietly eroding the foundations of leadership, capability and trust.For decades, expertise was the currency of professional value. If you knew more, you were worth more. AI has broken that equation. Knowledge is now cheap, fast and widely available. What once differentiated professionals and organisations is rapid...

Turn big ideas into real-world success with AI on your side.In today's fast-changing business landscape, having a big idea isn't enough. What sets successful entrepreneurs apart is their ability to validate that idea-quickly, affordably, and intelligently-before betting the farm.In Validate or Die, renowned entrepreneur and startup mentor Jamie Pride delivers a no-nonsense, AI-powered framework for testing and refining ideas before...

How do the really exceptional CEOs get more done in less time than everyone else? What is their technique for getting their work done while still having the time to spend pursuing hobbies and spending quality time with their friends and family? The truth is that great and lazy CEOs know a secret when it comes to time management. Rather than spending a little time on a lot of things, the best CEOs spend most of their time eliminating the single biggest constraint to the growth of their busi...

In today’s lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. Yet, managing human beings and navigating complex product roadmaps is no easy task, and it’s rare to find a product leader who can steward a digital product from concept to launch without a couple of major hiccups. Why do some product leaders succeed while others don’t?This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over ...

The classic on the universal laws of business success, completely revised and updated for today's leadersCompletely rewritten for today’s business world, What the CEO Wants You to Know, expanded and updated, written by bestselling author Ram Charan, describes the fundamentals behind every business, from street vendors in Mumbai, to Fortune 500 companies. Drawing on stories from Uber, Amazon, Apple, Toyota, Netflix, Lyft, The Limited, Walmart, GE and Starbu...

The ideal companion for anyone starting out on a new venture. Successful entrepreneurs are smart. They take small steps, use their judgement astutely and reassess their assumptions at every opportunity. In today's fast-moving and technology-driven business environment, they collect the tools and the knowledge they need to manage uncertainty and stay ahead of the competition. Above all they strive to understand their market and business environment - as a result, they may even end up sellin...

If you only read one “product management” book this year, this should be it. Instead of presenting another spin on how to turn ideas into blockbuster products, Managing Products to Deliver Solutions lets you in on a secret that only the most successful business-to-business (B2B) organizations seem to understand: Product management is more about building multi-product solutions that have higher value to businesses and their customers than it is about building great products for individual u...

GREAT IDEAS CHANGE THE WORLD, but how do you know if your idea is truly great? That is the problem Professor Sean Wise addresses in his third and best book to date. Sean Wise, former online host and business advisor to the hit reality show, Dragons' Den, has heard tens of thousands of entrepreneurs' idea pitches. Some were good, most were bad, and in this book he shows you how to tell the difference. Based on more than 20,000 hours of pitches, Wise takes us inside the minds of investors an...

Becoming a tech lead is one of the most challenging transitions in a technical career. You're no longer just writing code; now you're guiding people, aligning teams, and translating strategy into execution. Suddenly, your calendar's packed, Slack is blowing up, and you're still somehow expected to ship code. You're not building systems anymore, you're building people. And no one gave you the manual—until now.Leveling Up as a Tech Lead gives you the clarity and tools to lea...

A predictable pattern of successEntrepreneurs who have read early drafts of The Start-Up J Curve responded, ''I wish I had this book years ago.''A start-up unfolds in a predictable pattern; the more aware entrepreneurs are of this pattern, the better able they will be to capitalize on it. Author Howard Love calls this pattern the start-up J Curve: The toughest part of the endeavor is the time between the actual start of a new business and when the p...

This book from business coaching expert Matt Bell examines how business-to-business buying and selling have changed post-pandemic, making content marketing an essential component in any B2B company's go-to-market strategy. "Content Marketing: Making the Magic Happen" provides B2B marketing leaders with a structured guide to leading their company's content marketing efforts and explains how to operationalize a sustainable strategy that uses content marketing to drive top- and bottom-line gr...