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WOAH, this is immensely helpful and a very thorough list. Thank you!
by Thriptic 13y ago
WOAH, this is immensely helpful and a very thorough list. Thank you!
- jmalicki 12y agoMichael Porter's "Competitive Strategy" is oddly missing from the list, as it's one of the most influential corporate strategy books out there... if you like the spirit of that list, you should definitely add that one. (Porter's "5 forces" are one of the highlights of a typical MBA curriculum). Also, learning some accounting is extraordinarily useful (thinking about capex vs. opex, etc.)
- mindcrime 12y agoAny or all of Porter's works would be fine additions as well. But they're bigger, longer, dryer and more academic, and - arguably - a bit less accessible. I'd recommend somebody coming to the "business side of things" maybe defer jumping into Porter until after reading some of the other works that touch on, or dance around, his material. The Discipline of Market Leaders, in particular, could probably be seen as sort of a riff on Porter's ideas, albeit more focused. I'm actually a big fan of their approach, and that's really why I put that instead of saying "go read Michael Porter". All of that said, the book Understanding Michael Porter is a good introduction to his approach, and is probably more accessible than jumping right into Competitive Strategy or the others.