From Amazon's Summary: Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a...
Decision Making Books
How to Decide by Annie Duke
Here is a description from Amazon: "What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? If you're like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn't work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly...
Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
From Amazon's description: "Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in...
Smart Choices by Howard Raiffa
From Amazon's Summary: "Where should I live? Is it time to get a new job? Which job candidate should I hire? What business strategy should I pursue? We spend the majority of our lives making decisions, both big and small. Yet, even though our success is largely...
Decisive by Chip Heath
From Amazon's book description: "Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by...
Decision By Design by Shane Parrish
From Shane Parrish's "Decision by Design" "The process of decision making has been studied for ages. How to actually move through that process is the art form. The skills you’ll learn in Decision by Design have been tested over time and across industries. They work...
The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
From Amazon's Description: When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we...
“The Success Equation” by Michael Mauboussin
From Amazon's description: “Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck.” — From the Introduction "The trick, of course, is figuring out just how many of our successes (and failures) can be attributed to each—and how we can learn to...
Quit by Annie Duke
Summary from Amazon: "Business leaders, with millions of dollars down the drain, struggle to abandon a new app or product that just isn’t working. Governments, caught in a hopeless conflict, believe that the next tactic will finally be the one that wins the war. And...
Think Again by Adam Grant
From Amazon's Description: "Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor...