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The book is said to be "one of the most influential business books of our era". [2] The authors identified two primary objectives for the research published in the book: “to identify underlying characteristics are common to highly visionary companies” and “to effectively communicate findings so that they can influence management”.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters.It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012.
The Snowball was Amazon.com's best business and investing book of the year 2008. [4] Time Magazine, People Magazine, and critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times named it one of ten best books of the year. [5] The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, and Publishers Weekly also each named The Snowball the best book of 2008. [5]
The book was a bestseller, selling four million copies and going far beyond the traditional audience of business books. [1] The book was published on October 16, 2001. The Good to Great companies
Critical reception was mostly positive, [3] [4] with the Gulf News commenting that it would help "usher in a decade focused less on stuff and more on people". [5] Publishers Weekly gave a mixed review, stating that the "breadth of the material is better suited for a lengthy article than a full business book, and the effort to stretch it into a longer work diminishes the meaningful research".
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses is a book by Eric Ries describing his proposed lean startup strategy for startup companies. [1]
On July 11, 2014 in an essay published in the Wall Street Journal [4] [5] and slightly later in his blog, Bill Gates proclaimed Business Adventures, recommended to him by Warren Buffett, as "the best business book I've ever read." [6] The prose is superb: reading Brooks is a supreme pleasure.
A reviewer of Financial Times stated, "Providing a window into how to think about strategy today, Kiechel tells their story with novelistic flair. At times inspiring, at times nearly terrifying, this book is a revealing account of how these iconoclasts and the organizations they led revolutionized the way we think about business, changed the very soul of the corporation, and transformed the ...