23 must-read business books like It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference. by Ed Stack

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It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference.

By: Ed Stack

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz’s Onward , an inspiring memoir from the CE…

If you liked the business plot in It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference. by Ed Stack , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

1. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

By: Phil Knight

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight share… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"We must all be professors of the jungle."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"maybe the cure for any burnout is to work harder."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

"Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment."

-Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Cover of The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Sean Covey, Chris McChesney, Jim Huling

2. The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

By: Sean Covey , Chris McChesney , Jim Huling

4.08

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“ The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a book every leader should read.” —Clayton Christensen, Profess… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook

3. The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

By: Patrick Lencioni

3.71

Format: 656 pages,

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking ap… read more

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4. The Dream Manager

By: Matthew Kelly

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A business parable about how companies can achieve remarkable results by helping their employees fu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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5. Only the Paranoid Survive

By: Andrew S. Grove

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the world's largest chip maker and one of the most … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • business
  • leadership

6. Sam Walton: Made In America

By: Sam Walton , John Huey

3.82

Format: 295 pages,

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, w… read more

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7. The Effective Manager

By: None

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

The how-to guide for exceptional management from the bottom upThe Effective Manageris a hands-on pr… read more

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8. Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

By: Gino Wickman

3.00

Format: None pages,

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? Don't let common pro… read more

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9. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

Cover of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

10. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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11. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

By: Tom Chivers

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

12. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Cover of Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday

13. Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

By: Ryan Holiday

4.04

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Ryan Holiday's best… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"Start small...on something big."

-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

"You can also commit injustice by doing nothing."

-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

"History is written with blood, sweat, and tears, and it is etched into eternity by the quiet endurance of courageous people."

-Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave

Cover of My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future by Indra  Nooyi

14. My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

By: Indra Nooyi

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of Peps… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys by Joe Coulombe

15. Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys

By: Joe Coulombe

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Build an iconic shopping experience that your customers love—and a work environment that your emplo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph by Sheila   Johnson

16. Walk Through Fire: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Triumph

By: Sheila Johnson

4.39

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal journe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) by William H. McRaven

17. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

By: William H. McRaven

4.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of  Make Your Bed —a short, inspirational book of advice and… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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18. The Last Lecture

By: Randy Pausch

4.26

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"Please don't die."

-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

"I don't believe in the no-win scenario"

-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

"Focus on other people, not on yourself."

-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

"Never make a decision until you have to."

-Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Cover of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz

19. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

By: Cade Metz

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • business
  • audiobook
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"

-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

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20. The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

By: A.J. Baime

4.55

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"After a few minutes Truman went back inside the White House, so he could call his mother and personally deliver the news: World War II was over. ("That was Harry," ninety-two-year-old Mamma Truman sa…"

-A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World

Cover of That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph

21. That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

By: Marc Randolph

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went fr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest by Carolyn Dewar

22. CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

By: Carolyn Dewar

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller From the world’s most influential managem… read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today by Lewis Howes

23. The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today

By: Lewis Howes

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Discover the mindset shifts you need to make to achieve your innate, inevitable greatness from the … read more

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  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better."

-Lewis Howes, The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today

"There’s no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey."

-Lewis Howes, The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today

Cover of Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets by Jason Del Rey

24. Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets

By: Jason Del Rey

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A riveting investigation of the no-holds-barred battle between Amazon and Walmart to become the kin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise by Horst Schulze

25. Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise

By: Horst Schulze

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, co-author of Built to Last: "Horst Schulze created a culture … read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company by Cal Turner Jr.

26. My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company

By: Cal Turner Jr.

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape that Dave Ramsey … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • business
  • leadership
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27. It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference.

By: Ed Stack

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz’s Onward , an inspiring memoir from the CE… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew  Wilkinson

28. Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire

By: Andrew Wilkinson

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Wilkinson, touted as the Warren Buffett of tech, pulls back the curtain on the lives of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • business
Cover of The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth by Ilya Strebulaev

29. The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth

By: Ilya Strebulaev

4.24

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by venture capitalists’ unique mindset, this is a transformative playbook for delivering e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
Cover of Made From Scratch: The Legendary Success Story of Texas Roadhouse by Kent  Taylor

30. Made From Scratch: The Legendary Success Story of Texas Roadhouse

By: Kent Taylor

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

* An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller * From founder Kent Taylor, the incredible made-from… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17 must-read audiobook books like It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference. by Ed Stack

Transform Your Habits

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Sean Covey , Chris McChesney , Jim Huling

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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19 Top audiobook books like The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today by Lewis Howes

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam M. Grant

4.12

Transform Your Habits

8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go

Jay Shetty

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

Shane Parrish

4.21

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