198 of 205 multi-book guides name a real disagreement between their sources (7 do not).
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Start & Grow a Company
First customer conversation to a venture that scales.
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition (Collins Business Essentials)A field-tested marketing model explaining why disruptive high-tech products stall between early enthusiasts and mainstream buyers, and how to bridge that gap to achieve market dominance.For Marketing Professional, Sales Leader, Startup Founder, Local Business Owner
Book profile$513 sections · 1 book
The AI Marketing Canvas: A Five-Step AI Plan for MarketersA practical five-step framework called the AI Marketing Canvas that guides marketers from awareness to action in adopting AI and machine learning to supercharge every moment of the customer relationship.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Lead Teams & Organizations
The craft of leading people — and leading a team in any function.
Advanced Database MarketingAn edited collection of advanced methods and applications in database marketing, equipping analysts and researchers with innovative techniques to analyze complex customer data and manage customer relationships in the modern digital landscape.
Book profile$58 sections · 1 book
An Introduction to Performance Analysis of SportA practical and academic introduction to sports performance analysis that teaches coaches, analysts and researchers how to design analysis systems, gather reliable performance data, and turn it into actionable feedback that improves preparation and performance.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in RA practical, accessible introduction to statistical learning that teaches the major supervised and unsupervised methods for understanding and predicting from data, with hands-on Python labs.
Artificial Intelligence in Finance A Python-Based GuideA practical guide to using Artificial Intelligence, particularly neural networks and reinforcement learning with Python, to discover and exploit statistical and economic inefficiencies in financial markets, challenging the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
Book profile$55 sections · 1 book
Benchmarking Best Practices in Maintenance ManagementA comprehensive guide for transforming reactive, wasteful maintenance departments into proactive, strategic, and profit-generating business functions by implementing a structured framework of best practices and benchmarking.
Book profile$513 sections · 1 book
Benchmarking Maintenance MgmtA practitioner's guide to treating maintenance as a core business process and using disciplined benchmarking of best practices to move a maintenance organization from reactive firefighting to reliability-focused, profit-contributing world-class performance.
Book profile$513 sections · 1 book
Business Applications of Operations ResearchThis book demonstrates how to use mathematical Operations Research techniques and software to solve a wide range of common business problems and optimize decision-making across various management functions.
Book profile$56 sections · 1 book
CLC_Selecting_HR_MetricsA structured four-step process for selecting HR metrics that align with corporate and human capital strategy so HR can demonstrate its business impact.
Book profile$57 sections · 1 book
Coaching Knowledges Understanding the Dynamics of Sport PerformanceAn edited collection arguing that effective sports coaching is a complex, dynamic social process shaped by cultural, relational, and knowledge-based forces rather than a straightforward transfer of technical instruction.
Customer Accounting Creating Value with Customer AnalyticsA concise guide showing how firms and investors can create and measure value by treating customers as their most valuable intangible asset through Customer Lifetime Value and Customer Equity analytics.
Data Mesh Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale (Final Release)A decentralized sociotechnical approach for managing analytical data at scale that shifts ownership to business domains, treats data as a product, and is supported by a self-serve platform and federated computational governance.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Data Science for Marketing AnalyticsA hands-on, end-to-end guide to applying Python data science techniques—from cleaning raw data to clustering, regression, and classification—to solve real marketing problems like segmentation, customer value prediction, and churn.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Data Science for Supply Chain ForecastingA hands-on, do-it-yourself guide showing supply chain practitioners how to build, tune, and manage their own statistical and machine learning demand forecasting models in Excel and Python.
Developing Performance Indicators for Managing MaintenanceA comprehensive guide for managers to transform their maintenance department from a reactive cost center into a proactive, strategic driver of corporate profitability by implementing a hierarchical system of best practices and performance indicators.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
DIGITAL MARKETING ANALYTICS In Theory And In PracticeA practitioner-scholar's guide to becoming a successful digital marketing analyst by mastering the art and science of collecting, analyzing, and visually communicating consumer data.
Excellence in People AnalyticsA comprehensive guide for HR and business leaders on how to build and scale a people analytics function that uses workforce data to deliver tangible business value, based on a nine-part framework and illustrated with case studies from leading global companies.
Financial Modeling - 2nd EditionA practical 'cookbook' that provides step-by-step recipes for implementing common and essential financial models in Microsoft Excel.
Book profile$58 sections · 1 book
Financial Modeling, 3rd EditionA comprehensive, practical guide that teaches finance students and professionals how to build and implement a wide range of financial models using Microsoft Excel.
Book profile$57 sections · 1 book
Financial Planning Analysis and Performance ManagementA comprehensive and practical guide for finance professionals to transform Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) from a backward-looking reporting function into a forward-looking, strategic partner that drives business performance and creates shareholder value.
Book profile$514 sections · 1 book
Football Analytics with Python RA practical guide to applying statistical modeling and data science techniques using Python and R to analyze American football data for purposes ranging from team analysis to sports betting and fantasy football.
Book profile$55 sections · 1 book
Game of Edges The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional SportsThe story of how professional sports franchises transformed from casually run hobbies into data-driven, optimized businesses—and how the very analytics that made them win threatens the emotional, aesthetic, and communal appeal that made sports beloved in the first place.
Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People AnalyticsA practical handbook teaching the theory and applied methods of graph and network analysis for studying people, groups and organizations, with worked examples in R and Python.
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlowA hands-on, code-first guide that teaches the concepts, tools, and techniques needed to build intelligent systems using Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, from fundamental ML algorithms to deep learning.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
High Output ManagementA practicing CEO teaches managers that their true output is the output of their team, and shows how applying production principles, leverage, and motivation systematically raises that output.
Book profile$515 sections · 1 book
HR Analytics and Innovations in Workforce PlanningA practitioner's workbook showing how to transform old retrospective manpower planning into strategic, predictive HR Analytics that creates measurable, bottom-line value.
Book profile$513 sections · 1 book
Influence: The Psychology of PersuasionAn experimental social psychologist reveals the six universal psychological principles that drive automatic human compliance and shows how to recognize and defend against their exploitation.
Book profile$517 sections · 1 book
Innovators Dilemma ChristensenWell-managed, successful companies fail to stay atop their industries because the very management practices that make them successful also prevent them from developing the disruptive technologies that ultimately usurp their markets.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Internet Marketing Essentials A Comprehensive Digital Marketing TextbookA practical, up-to-date primer that teaches how the core disciplines of internet marketing—SEO, paid search, display advertising, landing pages, analytics, email, social media, reputation management, and mobile—work together to drive traffic, conversions, and revenue for any kind of website.
Inventory Optimization Models and SimulationsA practical, code-driven guide to optimizing inventory policies through mathematical models and simulations, covering everything from the classic EOQ to multi-echelon networks and simulation optimization.
Leading TeamsEffective work teams come not from leaders managing behavior in real time but from leaders creating and sustaining five enabling conditions that set the stage for great team performance.
Book profile$514 sections · 1 book
Lean but agile rethink workforce planning and gain a true competitive edgeA strategic playbook for rethinking work and staffing by clarifying measurable customer-driven outcomes first, then designing lean-but-agile work processes and a flexible talent pool to achieve them at optimal cost and speed.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Lean ThinkingA foundational guide that introduces five core principles—Value, Value Stream, Flow, Pull, and Perfection—to help organizations systematically eliminate waste, create more value for customers with fewer resources, and achieve dramatic improvements in performance.
Machine Learning EngineeringA practical, end-to-end guide to the engineering principles and best practices required to successfully build, deploy, and maintain machine learning systems in production.
Book profile$515 sections · 1 book
Maintenance management systems in evolutionThis collection of papers explores the evolution of road and street maintenance management systems, detailing trends in budgeting, computerization, priority assessment, risk management, and the increasing use of contract maintenance to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Book profile$514 sections · 1 book
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, 2nd Edition (McGraw-Hill Handbooks)A practical handbook detailing a system of maintenance planning and scheduling principles that dramatically boosts labor productivity, increases plant reliability, and transforms maintenance from a reactive cost center into a proactive competitive advantage.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Maintenance Work Management Processes Maintenance Strategy SeriesA practical guide to transforming a maintenance department into a proactive, profit-generating business function by implementing disciplined work management processes centered on the full utilization of the work order system.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
Managing Factory MaintenanceA practical field guide to transforming a reactive maintenance department into a proactive, world-class function that boosts plant output, reduces costs, and eventually shrinks the need for maintenance itself.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
Marketing analytics a practical guide to real marketing scienceA practitioner's conversational guide to applying statistical and econometric techniques to real marketing problems in order to quantify the causality of consumer behavior and drive strategic decisions.
Book profile$58 sections · 1 book
Marketing analytics data-driven techniques with Microsoft ExcelA practical guide that teaches marketing professionals and students how to use Microsoft Excel to apply a wide range of data-driven analytical techniques to solve common marketing problems.
Marketing Research (Chris West (auth.))A practical, applications-focused guide that teaches marketing managers how to define information needs, choose research methods, commission and control research projects, and turn market data into decision-ready knowledge.
Methods of Operations Research (Dover Books on Computer Science)A foundational text that codifies operations research as a scientific method for giving executives a quantitative basis for decisions about the operations under their control, drawn largely from World War II military analysis.
Operations Research Using Excel A Case Study ApproachThis book teaches students and practitioners how to solve complex business decision-making problems by applying quantitative Operations Research techniques using a case study approach with Excel.
Book profile$57 sections · 1 book
People Analytics & Text Mining with RA practical, beginner-friendly guide to using free R software to run People Analytics, predictive HR modeling, social media mining, and text/sentiment analysis to link HR levers to business outcomes.
Book profile$515 sections · 1 book
People Analytics Data to DecisionsA practitioner's guide showing how HR can transform from a gut-feel, transactional function into a data-driven strategic partner by deploying People Analytics across the entire employee lifecycle to drive measurable business outcomes.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
People Analytics For DummiesA practical guide for HR professionals and business leaders on using data analysis to make smarter, evidence-based decisions about people, connecting human resources to tangible business outcomes and creating a competitive advantage.
Book profile$514 sections · 1 book
People Analytics For Dummies - Book PDFA practical guide for applying data analysis to human resources, enabling organizations to make smarter, evidence-based decisions about people to improve business outcomes and create a better workplace.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
People Analytics in the Era of Big DataA practical framework for applying advanced analytics and Big Data across every stage of the talent life cycle to attract, acquire, develop, and retain a high-value workforce.
People Analytics Theory, Tools and TechniquesA practical, hands-on guide that demystifies people analytics for managers and students by teaching the metrics, visualization tools, and statistical techniques needed to turn workforce data into evidence-based HR decisions.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
Performance Dashboards Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your BusinessA comprehensive guide to designing, building, and deploying performance dashboards as layered information systems that enable organizations to effectively measure, monitor, and manage business performance to achieve strategic objectives.
Practical Monitoring Effective Strategies for the Real WorldA practical, tool-agnostic guide to building effective, trustworthy monitoring across business, frontend, application, server, network, and security layers by focusing on principles rather than tools.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
Practical Statistics for Data ScientistsA practitioner's guide to the 50+ core statistical concepts data scientists actually need, explaining which classical methods matter for modern data work and why.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
Predictive Analytics for Human ResourcesA practical, step-by-step guide to applying descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to human capital so HR can uncover the causal drivers of workforce outcomes and connect talent decisions to business value.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on ApproachA hands-on, step-by-step guide showing HR managers how to apply predictive analytics tools like artificial neural networks and K-nearest neighbour in R to predict HR outcomes such as turnover and applicant success, thereby transforming HR from an intuition-driven function into a data-driven strategic partner.
Predictive HR AnalyticsMastering the HR metricA practical, step-by-step guide for HR professionals to move beyond simple reporting by learning and applying statistical methods to predict key business outcomes like turnover, performance, and engagement.
Principles of Marketing Engineering and AnalyticsThis book provides a systematic, model-supported framework for harnessing data and analytics to drive more effective and accountable marketing decisions in a data-rich world.
Book profile$58 sections · 1 book
Professional Practice in Sport Performance AnalysisA practically grounded guide to the day-to-day realities of working as an applied sport performance analyst, spanning technology, coaching, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional development, ethics and economics.
Book profile$514 sections · 1 book
profit_firstA simple cash-management system that flips the traditional accounting formula by taking profit first from every deposit, forcing businesses to become profitable immediately and permanently.
Book profile$513 sections · 1 book
Python for Data AnalysisA practical, hands-on guide to manipulating, processing, cleaning, and analyzing structured data in Python using pandas, NumPy, and the Jupyter/IPython ecosystem.
Book profile$57 sections · 1 book
Python for Finance Mastering Data-Driven FinanceThis book teaches finance professionals how to use Python and its powerful ecosystem of libraries to master data-driven finance, from data analysis and visualization to algorithmic trading and derivatives analytics.
Book profile$58 sections · 1 book
R for Data ScienceA practical, hands-on guide to doing data science in R using the tidyverse, walking the reader through the complete workflow of importing, tidying, transforming, visualizing, modeling, and communicating data.
Sales forecasting management a demand management approachA comprehensive guide to transforming sales forecasting from a technical exercise into a strategic management process that integrates techniques, systems, and cross-functional collaboration to improve supply chain performance and drive shareholder value.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Scientific AdvertisingAdvertising is salesmanship in print, governed by testable, fixed laws, and every campaign should be measured by traced returns to know its true cost and result.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Showstopper the breakneckrace to create Windows NT and the next generation at MicrosoftA gripping journalistic account of the brutal, high-stakes, five-year 'death march' led by legendary and volcanic programmer Dave Cutler to create Microsoft's groundbreaking Windows NT operating system, detailing the immense technical complexity, corporate power struggles, and profound personal sacrifices of the team that built it.
Software Architecture MetricsTen leading practitioners show how to select, implement, automate, and act on software architecture metrics so that objective measurement—not gut feeling—guides architectural decisions and business outcomes.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Software estimation demystifying the black artA practical guide that demystifies software estimation by providing developers and managers with straightforward, proven techniques to create accurate and reliable project estimates, moving the practice from a 'black art' to a manageable discipline.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
Software Metrics A Rigorous and Practical Approach Edition 3A comprehensive guide that applies formal measurement theory and a goal-oriented framework to software engineering, enabling practitioners to rigorously define, validate, and use metrics for understanding, controlling, and improving software products, processes, and resources.
Book profile$58 sections · 1 book
Sports Analytics in Practice with RA hands-on, chapter-by-chapter guide to applying R programming and analytics techniques—from data visualization to machine learning, NLP, optimization, and exploratory analysis—across diverse sports contexts.
Start With WhyGreat leaders and organizations inspire action by communicating from the inside out—starting with WHY (their purpose, cause or belief) rather than WHAT they do.
Stop Random Acts of MarketingMid-market CEOs stuck on a revenue plateau must replace 'random acts of marketing' with a customer-driven strategy that aligns marketing and sales for sustainable growth.
Supply Chain ExcellenceA step-by-step, week-by-week handbook for using the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model to define, measure, and dramatically improve a company's supply chain performance.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Supply Chain Management A Global PerspectiveA comprehensive guide to designing and managing competitive, resilient, and sustainable global supply chains by integrating key business functions and leveraging modern strategies and technologies.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Supply Chain Metrics that MatterA guide for business leaders on how to drive sustainable corporate performance by managing a balanced portfolio of supply chain metrics as a complex, interconnected system.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Supply chain optimization through segmentation and analyticsThere is no 'one size fits all' solution to supply chain planning and scheduling, so organizations should segment their supply chain and apply analytics to match the optimal planning and scheduling tool to each distinct segment.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
Supply Chain Planning and AnalyticsAn analytics-driven guide to the three interlinked processes of supply chain planning—demand planning, sales and operations planning, and inventory and supply planning—that together determine whether a company delivers the right product in the right place at the right time.
Book profile$513 sections · 1 book
Supply Chain Planning, 2nd EditionA practitioner-oriented guide showing how firms can use linked, hierarchical planning frameworks—supported by decision support systems and performance metrics—to align supply chain strategy with business goals and achieve superior, measurable performance.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Supply chain scienceA management book that reframes production and supply chain management as a science, teaching managers the fundamental principles that explain why complex systems behave as they do so they can make better decisions in almost any scenario.
Book profile$516 sections · 1 book
Supply Chain Strategy The Logistics of Supply Chain ManagementThis book provides a comprehensive framework for developing and implementing a supply chain strategy by detailing best practices and systems across the five core logistics activities: customer response, inventory management, supply, transportation, and warehousing.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
The Art of Capacity Planning Scaling Web Resources in the CloudA practical, field-tested guide for web operations professionals on how to measure, plan, and manage the technical resources needed for a growing web application to ensure high performance and availability.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
The Balanced Scorecard Translating Strategy into ActionA revolutionary management system that translates a company's strategy into a balanced set of performance measures across four key perspectives—financial, customer, internal processes, and learning & growth—to drive long-term value creation.
The Book of Why - The New Science of Cause and EffectA manifesto for the Causal Revolution showing how causal diagrams and the mathematics of counterfactuals let us answer 'why' questions that statistics alone never could.
The Logistics and Supply Chain ToolkitA practical reference guide providing over 100 tools, techniques, and frameworks for logistics and supply chain professionals to audit, analyze, and improve operational efficiency across warehousing, transport, and inventory management.
The New Science of RetailingRetailers can dramatically increase profits by replacing hunch-driven merchandising with data-driven analytics that better match supply with customer demand across assortment, inventory, supply chain, incentives, execution, and technology decisions.
Book profile$514 sections · 1 book
The OutsidersEight unconventional CEOs achieved extraordinary long-term success by rejecting conventional management wisdom and instead adhering to a shared, radically rational blueprint centered on superior capital allocation.
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The Phoenix ProjectA reluctant new VP of IT Operations must save a struggling manufacturing company from itself by transforming chaotic, firefighting IT practices into disciplined, flow-optimized DevOps delivery—before the business collapses under the weight of its own technical debt.
The Six Sigma Handbook, Third EditionA comprehensive handbook for implementing the Six Sigma methodology to achieve virtually error-free business performance, driving increased customer value, efficiency, and profitability through a disciplined, data-driven approach to process improvement.
The truth about search engine advertisingA practical, principle-driven guide to pay-per-click search engine marketing that reframes paid search as a profit-maximizing, ROI-driven media channel rather than a narrow sales tactic.
Traction - Get A Grip - AudibleA practical operating system that helps entrepreneurs strengthen six key components of their business to gain traction and execute their vision.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Traction_ Get a Grip on Your BusinessA practical operating system (EOS) that helps entrepreneurial leaders strengthen six key components of their business to gain traction and realize their vision.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Understanding Sponsored Search Core Elements of Keyword AdvertisingA foundational examination of why sponsored search (keyword advertising) works the way it does, integrating theory from information science, consumer behavior, advertising, economics, and game theory into a coherent model of the keyword advertising process.
Valuation Measuring and Managing the Value of CompaniesThis book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to measuring and managing company value based on the core principles that long-term value is driven by the interplay of return on invested capital (ROIC) and growth, which together determine future free cash flows.
What every professional needs, whether or not you manage anyone.
Book Summary: The Goal by Eliyahu GoldrattA failing plant manager, guided by a Socratic physicist named Jonah, discovers that the goal of any manufacturing organization is to make money, and learns to manage by identifying and exploiting system constraints rather than chasing local efficiencies.
Build a People Analytics PracticeWhat the field actually agrees on — capability and maturity, data quality, infrastructure — reconciled from 33 practitioner books. The consensus view; its contrast is The 4S Method.For People Analytics Professional
Topic guide$3045 sections · 35 books
Do Sports AnalyticsDecision-making quality — from 7 books.For Executive Performance Leader
A Practical Guide To Conjoint AnalysisA concise practical guide that explains how conjoint analysis infers the value consumers place on individual product attributes by analyzing their ratings of or choices among realistically described products.
Book profile$57 sections · 1 book
A Theory of Human MotivationHuman beings are perpetually wanting animals whose needs arrange themselves into a hierarchy of prepotency, so that satisfying lower needs releases the emergence of higher ones culminating in self-actualization.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better ResultsA practical, implementation-focused guide showing how any organization can build the capabilities to put analytics to work in everyday decisions and processes to make smarter decisions and get better results.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Applied Multivariate Stats Social Sciences StevensA practical guide for social science students and researchers on how to apply, interpret, and critically evaluate common multivariate statistical techniques using SPSS and SAS, emphasizing conceptual understanding, assumption checking, and the generalizability of results.
Basics Qualitative Research Grounded Theory Corbin StraussA practical guide that demystifies qualitative data analysis by providing a systematic set of techniques, grounded in Pragmatism and Interactionism, for transforming raw data into credible concepts, rich descriptions, and integrated theories.
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and ThinkBig data—the ability to analyze vast quantities of information rather than samples—is transforming how we understand the world by privileging correlation over causation, scale over exactitude, and prediction over explanation.
Build A People Analytics FunctionI am standing up or running the function - data quality, capability, tooling, sponsorship, trust, ROI, and getting decisions actually made on evidence.
Topic guide$309 sections · 102 books
Compensating Your Employees FairlyA practical guide to detecting, understanding, and correcting compensation discrimination and internal pay inequity using multiple regression and other statistical techniques.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of WinningA field-defining guide arguing that organizations can build durable competitive advantage by systematically using data, statistical and quantitative analysis, and fact-based decision making as a distinctive strategic capability.
Fundamentals of Social ResearchA beginner-friendly guide that marries social research methods with statistics to teach students—especially social workers and development officers—how to conduct systematic, objective, and ethical inquiry.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
Handbook of Regression Modeling in People AnalyticsA practical handbook teaching analytics practitioners how to select, run, and interpret the full range of regression models for inferential analysis of people-related questions, with worked examples in R and Python.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape BehaviorOther people invisibly shape almost every decision we make—what we buy, who we marry, how hard we try—and understanding how social influence works lets us harness it rather than be ruled by it.
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected WorldAn interdisciplinary introduction to how the social, economic, and technological worlds are connected through networks, and how individual behavior aggregates into population-wide outcomes via structure, incentives, and feedback effects.
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Predictive HR AnalyticsA hands-on guide that teaches HR and management-information professionals how to move beyond descriptive reporting to apply inferential, predictive statistical techniques to people-related data using SPSS (and R).
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Reliability and Validity AssessmentA concise, foundational guide to how social scientists can assess whether their measures consistently capture (reliability) and accurately represent (validity) the abstract concepts they intend to measure.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
Ship Analytics, Don't Just Prototype ItThe notebook works. Now it has to run in production, be maintained, and be built by a team with the skill to keep it alive.For People Analytics Professional
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for YouA guide to becoming a 'many-model thinker' who confronts the complexity of the modern world by applying ensembles of formal models to reason, explain, design, communicate, act, predict, and explore.
Accelerate The Science of DevOpsUsing rigorous, survey-based scientific research across thousands of organizations, Accelerate identifies the 24 measurable capabilities that drive high software delivery performance, which in turn drives organizational performance, employee satisfaction, and competitive advantage.
Book profile$516 sections · 1 book
Business Intelligence Guidebook: From Data Integration to AnalyticsA comprehensive, vendor-agnostic practitioner's guide to building a sustainable business intelligence environment from data integration through advanced analytics, with emphasis that BI success depends as much on people, process, and politics as on technology.
Book profile$515 sections · 1 book
Data Warehouse and Data MiningA comprehensive textbook that teaches the foundational concepts, architectures, and techniques of data warehousing and data mining and their real-world applications.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsA deep, principles-first guide to the architecture of reliable, scalable, and maintainable data systems, explaining the trade-offs behind databases, distributed systems, and data processing.
Book profile$513 sections · 1 book
Effective Data Science InfrastructureA practical guide to building human-centric infrastructure that empowers data scientists to develop, deploy, and operate machine learning applications end-to-end without becoming DevOps experts.
Book profile$521 sections · 1 book
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional ModelingThe definitive guide to dimensional modeling for data warehousing and business intelligence, teaching practitioners how to design simple, fast, business-driven analytic databases through case-study-driven techniques.
BlitzscalingBlitzscaling is the strategy of prioritizing speed over efficiency in an environment of uncertainty to achieve massive, market-dominating scale faster than competitors.
Business AdventuresThrough twelve richly reported case studies from Wall Street and corporate America, John Brooks reveals the enduring human dramas, follies, and institutional behaviors that define financial and business life.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
Competitive StrategyA foundational guide that introduces timeless frameworks, including the Five Forces, for analyzing industry structure and competitor behavior to formulate a strategy that achieves sustainable competitive advantage and superior profitability.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
Good StrategyBad StrategyA good strategy is a coherent response to a critical challenge, consisting of a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coordinated actions, while the common affliction of 'bad strategy' is merely a mix of wishful thinking, buzzwords, and ambitious goals.
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming ProductsA practical framework—the four-phase Hook Model—for designing products that build habits by connecting users' internal triggers to a company's solution through cycles of trigger, action, variable reward, and investment.
Book profile$515 sections · 1 book
Human + MachineIn the age of AI, the greatest business value comes not from machines replacing humans but from humans and machines collaborating in a 'missing middle' to reimagine work and processes.
Book profile$511 sections · 1 book
Playing to Win How Strategy Really WorksTwo seasoned strategists reveal that winning in business is not about visions or plans, but about making a rigorous and integrated set of five choices that define where to play and how to win in the marketplace.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Set Goals And OKRs That Actually MoveWe set goals and they drift. I want goals that stay connected to the work and to the numbers.For People Analytics Professional
Seven Powers HelmerA guide to business strategy that identifies the seven durable sources of competitive advantage, or 'Powers,' that enable a company to achieve persistent, superior financial returns.
Book profile$512 sections · 1 book
Strategy That Works LeinwandCompanies achieve sustained success by closing the gap between strategy and execution through 'coherence'—the alignment of a distinct value proposition with a system of a few mutually reinforcing, differentiating capabilities.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
Understanding Michael PorterAn essential guide that distills Michael Porter's foundational frameworks on competition and strategy, arguing that sustained superior performance comes not from being the best, but from being unique.
Book profile$510 sections · 1 book
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy ReevesTo achieve superior performance, leaders must abandon a one-size-fits-all approach and instead select and execute the right strategy—Classical, Adaptive, Visionary, Shaping, or Renewal—that best fits their specific business environment.
Book profile$54 sections · 1 book
Careers & Professions
What a profession actually takes.
Antifragile (Incerto)Some things benefit from shocks, volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors—and the book builds a systematic, nonpredictive way to identify, classify, and exploit this property called antifragility across health, economics, politics, technology, and ethics.
Book profile$513 sections · 1 book
Beyond Hr Boudreau RamstadThis book introduces 'talentship,' a strategic decision science that equips HR and business leaders to create sustainable competitive advantage by making differentiated investments in pivotal talent pools where performance has the greatest impact on strategic success.
Book profile$55 sections · 1 book
Good to GreatGreatness in the social sectors comes not from becoming more like a business, but from disciplined application of timeless good-to-great principles adapted to diffuse power, mission-based success, and resource engines beyond profit.
Book profile$59 sections · 1 book
Good to GreatA rigorous, data-driven investigation reveals how a small number of companies successfully transitioned from being merely good to achieving enduring greatness by applying a framework of disciplined principles, consistently, over time.
Book profile$58 sections · 1 book
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded EditionA behavioral economist demonstrates through clever experiments that human irrationality is not random but systematic and predictable, shaping the decisions we make about money, relationships, honesty, and happiness.
Book profile$517 sections · 1 book
Strategic Pay: Aligning Organizational Strategies and Pay SystemsEdward Lawler argues that pay systems, when strategically aligned with a company's business strategy and management style, can be a powerful and lasting source of competitive advantage rather than merely a cost of doing business.
Book profile$514 sections · 1 book
Thinking, Fast and SlowA groundbreaking exploration of the two systems that drive the way we think—the fast, intuitive System 1 and the slow, deliberative System 2—revealing the pervasive cognitive biases that systematically shape our judgments and decisions in everything from financial markets to personal happiness.
Book profile$529 sections · 1 book
Work Rules!Google's former head of People Operations reveals the data-driven, values-based people practices that any organization can adopt to attract, develop, and retain great people while making work more meaningful and free.
Book profile$520 sections · 1 book
Writing & Publishing
Write it, publish it, get it read.
Ux Strategy LevyA practical guide for product makers to devise innovative digital solutions by integrating business strategy with validated user research, competitive analysis, and frictionless UX design.