The Top 10 Bestselling Entrepreneur Books

Incorruptible

BY ERIC RIES

#Leadership #CEOLeadership #Workplace

" Incorruptible by Eric Ries is the best and most important business book of the year." --Dan Heath, NYT Bestselling Author & Podcast Host of "What It's Like To Be..." A Thinkers50 Best New Management Book A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read From Eric Ries, creator of The Lean Startup , comes a bold and urgently needed rethink of how organizations are built--and why success itself so often turns companies against the people and principles that made them worth building in the first place. For decades, we've explained corporate corruption as a problem of bad actors, moral weakness, or isolated scandals. But that story doesn't match reality. Again and again, companies founded with strong ideals drift toward short-term thinking, extractive behavior, and mission abandonment--often despite the best intentions of the people inside them. Incorruptible argues that this failure is not primarily ethical. It is structural. As organizations grow, the systems that govern them--ownership, incentives, charters, accountability, and decision-making--quietly reshape behavior. When those systems are poorly designed, even principled leaders are pushed toward outcomes they never wanted. Success itself becomes a form of financial gravity, bending companies away from their original purpose. Drawing on two decades of work with founders, CEOs, investors, and institution builders, Ries shows how these failures arise predictably--and how they can be prevented. He reframes corporate governance not as bureaucracy or compliance, but as a creative and strategic act at the heart of building enduring, mission-controlled companies. At a moment when trust in business is eroding, Incorruptible offers a clear-eyed diagnosis and a practical blueprint for change. Success alone will not protect what matters most. Only incorruptible design can. Get more information and bonus materials at incorruptible.co.

Buy Back Your Time

BY DAN MARTELL

#NonProfit #Workplace #ArtificialIntelligence

Wall Street Journal Bestseller Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and growing rich: Time How you use your free time will make or break your success. The secret? It's not about working harder or finding more time to do work. It's about designing the freedom to engage in the high-value work that brings you energy and fulfillment. This is at the heart of the message that has made Dan Martell the world's most popular SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) coach. Now, in his first book, Buy Back Your Time, he teaches entrepreneurs at every level how to scale their business, fast, while avoiding burnout. Trading money for time--that is, literally buying back free space in your calendar--will give you more financial success than you ever dreamed was possible. With over two decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur and founder, Dan Martell will teach you the secrets to work less and play more while building an empire. He'll dig into the practical steps that will allow you to start buying back time immediately , while also developing operating procedures and hiring practices that will ensure rapid and robust growth. And he will teach you how to invest in your newfound time wisely--at work and at home--so you keep building your empire while living your best life. Buy Back Your Time is the definitive guide for entrepreneurs at every level on how to succeed in business while enjoying more freedom than you ever imagined.

Hbr's 10 Must Reads 2026

BY HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, ERIN MEYER, BENT FLYVBJERG

#HBR #ManagementEssentials #LeadershipReads

The year's most important management thinking — curated by Harvard Business Review. HBR's 10 Must Reads 2026 features insights from leaders like Jensen Huang and Jane Fraser, with examples from Hermes to OpenAI. Topics include: Eliminating dysfunction in leadership teams Getting your organization on board with AI Designing products that grow with customers Building corporate culture that actually aligns with values Assessing macroeconomic risk for your business

The Algorithm

BY JON MCNEILL

#Leadership #Government #Workplace

A USA Today Bestseller From a former President of Tesla comes The Algorithm --the first book written by any of Elon Musk's direct reports--a transformative guide for leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators who want to emulate the paradigm-shattering approach Musk used to launch Tesla and SpaceX to meteoric success. Jon McNeill had already founded and sold six startups when Sheryl Sandberg introduced him to Elon Musk, who was looking for help at Tesla. McNeill was steeped in the lean principles that had made Toyota a global powerhouse--principles focused on achieving efficiency and optimization by incrementally improving existing systems and processes. What he learned from Elon at Tesla was its antithesis, an approach that required radical rethinking to explode the status quo, attack complexity, and set seemingly unrealistic goals. Elon called this five-step framework "The Algorithm." Question every requirement. Delete every possible step in the process. Simplify and optimize. Accelerate cycle time. Automate. In this book, McNeill details this tremendously powerful set of tools, which brought Tesla from a production crisis that threatened to derail it to a period of hypergrowth. During his tenure, revenue boomed from $2B to $20B in just 30 months. Since his departure from Tesla, McNeill has used The Algorithm in every enterprise he has worked with to supercharge speed, efficiency, innovation, and growth. Featuring case studies from Tesla and SpaceX, as well as from Lululemon, GM, and companies of various sizes across industries, he reveals how any business can do the same and achieve the unimaginable.

The Greater Game

BY DAN SULLIVAN, JOHN BOWEN

#Workplace #RealEstateCommercial #CEOLeadership

Start with Why

BY SIMON SINEK

#Purpose #WhyFirst #InspireAction

People don't buy what you do. They buy why you do it. Simon Sinek's insight — what he calls The Golden Circle — explains why leaders like Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Wright Brothers inspired action while others couldn't. They all started with WHY. Based on one of the most-watched TED Talks of all time (56M+ views), Start With Why provides a framework for building organizations, leading movements, and communicating in a way that earns genuine loyalty.

The Artist's Side Hustle

BY STACIE BLOOMFIELD

#CreativeEntrepreneur #BusinessOfArt #GrowYourBrand

From the founder of side-hustle-turned-multimillion-dollar-business Gingiber comes a road map to turn your creative passion into sustainable income with just five hours a week. Learn 13 ways to monetize your art, the secret to business growth in the art world, and how to build your creative business in the margins of your life. Rediscover your unique voice, generate income from your art, and gain the confidence to showcase your creativity to the world.

Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Updated and Expanded (Featuring the Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy by Michael E. Porter)

BY HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, MICHAEL E. PORTER, W. CHAN KIM

#RealEstateCommercial #CEOLeadership #Industries

Set a bold vision for your company--and achieve it. If you read nothing else on strategy, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand the dynamics of competition, find new sources of advantage, and create and capture lasting value. This book will inspire you to: Align your strategic thinking with your evolving industry Spot and mitigate bias in your decision-making Put purpose at the core of your strategy Discover new opportunities in the age of AI Create blue oceans that render the competition irrelevant Close the strategy-to-execution gap This collection of articles includes "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," by Michael E. Porter; "Blue Ocean Strategy," by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne; "Make Strategic Choices Simultaneously, Not Separately," by Roger L. Martin; "Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy," by Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche, and Charles Dhanaraj; "Take the Bias Out of Big Decisions," by Freek Vermeulen; "Transient Advantage," by Rita McGrath; "Competing in the Age of AI," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani; "In the Ecosystem Economy, What's Your Strategy?," by Michael G. Jacobides; "Why Isn't Your Strategy Sticking?," by Andrea Belk Olson; "How to Avoid the Agility Trap," by Jianwen Liao and Feng Zhu; "Strategy in a Hyperpolitical World," by Roger L. Martin and Martin Reeves; "What You Lose with Your New Priorities," by Natalia Weisz and Roberto Vassolo; "Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance," by Michael Mankins and Richard Steele; and "Bringing True Strategic Foresight Back to Business," by Amy Webb. HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review . Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others. This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

The Best Story Wins

BY MATTHEW LUHN

#Storytelling #PixarSecrets #BrandNarrative

Provides fresh perspectives on the principles of Pixar-style storytelling, adapted by one of the studio's top creatives to meet the needs of entrepreneurs, marketers, and business-minded storytellers of all stripes.

Good to Great

BY JIM COLLINS

#CEOLeadership #RealEstateCommercial #DecisionScience

In his international blockbuster Built to Last, which rode the business bestseller lists for five years, Jim Collins and his coauthor, Jerry Porras, revealed the success secrets of companies that were outstanding at their founding and then sustained greatness. In his new book, Collins has chosen to research an entirely new line of inquiry. Is transformation really possible? Are there mediocre companies that have turned themselves around and achieved sustained excellence after a decade of more of ordinary performance? And what is it about these companies that can explain their success? For nearly five years, Collins and his research team undertook a massive study of every company that has made the Fortune 500 since the advent of that listing in 1965—over 1400 companies in all. The result of that research was astounding—only 11 companies had successfully turned a mediocre enterprise into a true long term champion. The surprising secrets of how they did it—and how any company can—are brilliantly unlocked in this visionary new work.