Book Summaries

Fail Fast or Win Big is not about failing. It’s about embracing a specific way of thinking about creating and launching a company.

Joel Peterson lays out a path to make a lasting impact by following four core philosophies: establishing trust, creating a sense of mission, building a cohesive team, and executing and delivering results.

In You Are a Mogul, Tiffany Pham offers advice on everything from overcoming self-doubt, to pursuing side hustles, to crushing it at work by over-delivering, all the while remaining your authentic self.

Game-Time Decision Making provides everything you need to improve your decision-making game and build a championship-level business.

Crushing It! is a state-of-the-art guide to building your own path to professional and financial success, but it’s not about getting rich. It’s a blueprint for living life on your own terms.

From the importance of understanding your business and industry, to key questions for determining your choice of business, to fundamental principles for making deals and leading, Built, Not Born is essential reading for today’s entrepreneurs.

Joe Pulizzi, founder of several startups, reverse-engineers the traditional entrepreneurial model for success by shifting focus from first creating a product to getting customers first and then developing products.

The High Achiever’s Guide lays out a process for creating a new way of operating that you can use for the rest of your life to continue expanding and finding a holistic, redefined kind of success that has eluded you thus far.

Ben Horowitz tells it straight as he shares insights gained from developing, managing, selling, buying investing in and supervising technology companies. He offers techniques for navigating the struggle of being a leader and explains why you should take care of the people, the products and the profits, in that order.