• Book Title: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
• Author: Tony Hsieh
• Genre/ Category: Delivering Happiness
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Now in trade paperback, the hip, iconoclastic CEO of Zappos shows how a different kind of corporate culture can make a huge difference in achieving remarkable results — by actually creating a company culture that values happiness –and then delivers on it.

• Pay brand-new employees $2,000 to quit
• Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department
• Focus on company culture as the #1 priority
• Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business
• Help employees grow-both personally and professionally
• Seek to change the world
• Oh, and make money too . . . Sound crazy?

• Book Title: The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught In America’s Top Business Schools
• Author: Steven A. Silbiger
• Genre/ Category: Business Essentials
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

‘Anyone who has ever wished they attended a top-ten MBA school now has an alternative. Silbiger’s The 10-Day MBA. It distils the basics of a top MBA programme. It’s interesting, informative and certainly cheaper. I recommend it!’ Tom Fischgrund, author of The Insider’s Guide to the Top Ten Business Schools

A business classic, The 10-Day MBA provides an invaluable guide for all the people who do not have the time or resources to take a full-time business degree, or who require a short revision aid. Internationally acclaimed, this carefully structured and easy-to-read course will enable you to understand the concepts and jargon used in the business world without having to leave your desk. Here is your chance to become familiar with the key tools and theories taught at Harvard and Stanford and other leading business schools – in just ten days!

• Book Title: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)
• Author: Jim Collins
• Genre/ Category: Sustainable Business
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day — as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: “What makes the truly exceptional companies different from the comparison companies and what were the common practices these enduringly great companies followed throughout their history?”

Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.

• Book Title: Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)
• Author: Verne Harnish
• Genre/ Category: Delivering Happiness
• Average Rating: 5 Stars

(i) Winner of the 2015 International Book Awards for General Business; (ii) Winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award for General Business; (iii) Winner of the 2015 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Gold Medal for Non-Fiction Business; (iv) Winner of the 2015 Paris Book Festival Award for Business; (v) Winner of the 2015 Amsterdam Book Festival Award for Business; (vi) Winner of the 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Award for Business; (vii) Finalist of the 2015 International Book Awards for Best New Non-Fiction;

It’s been over a decade since Verne Harnish’s best-selling book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits was first released. Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t is the first major revision of this business classic. In Scaling Up, Harnish and his team share practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business. These approaches have been honed from over three decades of advising tens of thousands of CEOs and executives and helping them navigate the increasing complexities (and weight) that come with scaling up a venture. This book is written so everyone — from frontline employees to senior executives — can get aligned in contributing to the growth of a firm.

• Book Title: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
• Author: Al Ries, Jack Trout
• Genre/ Category: Marketing
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

There are laws of nature, so why shouldn’t there be laws of marketing?

As Al Ries and Jack Trout—the world-renowned marketing consultants and bestselling authors of Positioning—note, you can build an impressive airplane, but it will never leave the ground if you ignore the laws of physics, especially gravity. Why then, they ask, shouldn’t there also be laws of marketing that must be followed to launch and maintain winning brands? In The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Ries and Trout offer a compendium of twenty-two innovative rules for understanding and succeeding in the international marketplace. From the Law of Leadership, to The Law of the Category, to The Law of the Mind, these valuable insights stand the test of time and present a clear path to successful products. Violate them at your own risk.

• Book Title: How Google Works
• Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
• Genre/ Category: Technology/ Company
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg came to Google over a decade ago as proven technology executives. At the time, the company was already well-known for doing things differently, reflecting the visionary–and frequently contrarian–principles of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. If Eric and Jonathan were going to succeed, they realized they would have to relearn everything they thought they knew about management and business.

Today, Google is a global icon that regularly pushes the boundaries of innovation in a variety of fields. HOW GOOGLE WORKS is an entertaining, page-turning primer containing lessons that Eric and Jonathan learned as they helped build the company.

• Book Title: How to Think Like Einstein
• Author: Daniel Smith
• Genre/ Category: Better Thinking
• Average Rating: 4 Stars

Best known as the creator of the world’s most famous equation, E=mc2, Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity challenged centuries of received wisdom dating back to Newton. Without his groundbreaking work in relativity and quantum physics, our knowledge of the cosmos might lag decades behind where it is today; But Einstein was not only an extraordinary scientific thinker. He was a humanitarian who detested war and tried to stem the proliferation of hitherto unimaginably destructive weapons that his work had in part made possible. He spent a lifetime fighting authoritarianism and promoting personal freedom, selflessly standing up to those who posed a threat to those ideals.

He was also a bona fide superstar and was instantly recognizable to millions who had not the least understanding of the intricacies of his scientific theories. Even now, the image of the tussled-hair ‘mad professor’ poking his tongue out at the camera is familiar across the globe.
In How to Think Like Einstein, you can explore his unique approach to solving the great scientific mysteries of his age and trace the disparate ideas and influences that helped shape his personality and outlook – for better and worse.

• Book Title: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
• Author: Timothy Ferriss
• Genre/ Category: Efficiency & Effectiveness (Personal & Business)
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

The New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Body shows readers how to live more and work less, now with more than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content.

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, or earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.

• Book Title: The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
• Author: Michael Lewis
• Genre/ Category: Technology/ Entrepreneurship
• Average Rating: 4 Stars

New York Times Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.”―Time

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. Lewis also found much more, and the result―the best-selling book The New New Thing―is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution.

• Book Title: The 48 Laws of Power
• Author: Robert Greene
• Genre/ Category: Political Philosophy
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.

In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum.

Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

• Book Title: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Author: Steven D. Levitt
• Genre/ Category: Economics & Freaky Statistics
• Average Rating: 4.5 Stars

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?
What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?
How much do parents really matter?

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports—and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. 

Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more.