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Attract the right team, set a market-driven strategy, prioritize wisely in execution and… don’t run out of cash

Attract the right team, set a market-driven strategy, prioritize wisely in execution and… don’t run out of cash

Verne Harnish – Scaling up

Densely written ‘how-to guide’ for executives who want to build a sustainable growth company.

Overcome predictible growth crises through insurgence, sense of ownership, and front-line obsession

Overcome predictible growth crises through insurgence, sense of ownership, and front-line obsession

Chris Zook – The founder’s mentality

Compared to the Chinese tech scene, Silicon Valley is slow and complacent

Compared to the Chinese tech scene, Silicon Valley is slow and complacent

Kai-Fu Lee – AI Superpowers

Former Google China Chief explains why China will win the AI race when it comes to applications of deep learning in the physical world.

Every visonary entrepreneur needs an integrator to assure his/her ideas materialize

Every visonary entrepreneur needs an integrator to assure his/her ideas materialize

Gino Wickman – Rocket fuel

By far the more readable book on org structure that I have come across.

Geoffrey Moore – Crossing the chasm

Geoffrey Moore – Crossing the chasm

A cutting-edge tech company marketing to early adopters has to completely reinvent itself to appeal to the mainstream market.

Written in an entertaining laid-back style that more business books could use and – above all – surprisingly relevant over 25 years after first publication in 1991.

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