Strategy, discovery, metrics, growth, pricing, design, delivery and leadership. Each entry says when it is the right one to pick up.
DeMarco and Lister on why software organisations avoid naming their risks and what that avoidance costs them. The book sets out a working risk management process covering identification, exposure, containment and the use of risk …
O'Neil, a mathematician who worked in finance and advertising technology, examines algorithms that operate at scale, remain opaque to the people they judge, and cause damage that feeds back into their own training data.
Gothelf and Seiden reframe an OKR as a sentence about human behaviour, asking who you want to change the behaviour of, what you want them to do differently, and by how much.
Smart and Street studied hiring practices across a large sample of executives and produced a method they summarise as scorecard, source, select and sell.
Bryar and Carr describe Amazon's mechanisms from the inside. The six page narrative memo instead of slides, the working backwards process that starts with a press release and FAQ, single threaded leadership, the bar raiser hiring …
Metts and Welfle argue that the words in a product are part of the design and should be made the same way, through research, iteration and testing. The book covers writing for interfaces, handling the moments where a product has …
Thiel's argument is that valuable companies do something genuinely new rather than copying what works, and that competition destroys profit while monopoly funds the long term.