11 Top self help books like Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You by Suneel Gupta

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Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

By: Suneel Gupta

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking book that boldly claims the key to success in business is not talent, connections,…

If you liked the self help plot in Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You by Suneel Gupta , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Go-Giver Leader: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business

By: Bob Burg , John David Mann

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

"I met last week with your leaders," Ben began. "I heard what they had to say. And you know, they m… read more

Similar categories in Bob Burg's The Go-Giver Leader: A Little Story About What Matters Most in Business book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership

2. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

3.94

Format: 450 pages, ebook

A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head … read more

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3. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

By: Daniel H. Pink

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are… read more

Similar categories in Daniel H. Pink's When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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4. Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

By: Patrick Bet-David

4.12

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most e… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Bet-David's Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"You're going to use experiences to become either bitter or better. To get better you must reflect on your mistakes."

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

"A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur."

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

"You want to choose a path that puts the odds of winning in your favor; in poker, it’s called game selection. What determines if you win in any game (or business) isn’t how good you are; it’s how good…"

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

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5. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

By: Will Guidara

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner … read more

Similar categories in Will Guidara's Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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6. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

Similar categories in Venki Ramakrishnan's Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Who Is Michael Ovitz?

By: Michael Ovitz

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

If you're going to read one book about Hollywood, this is the one.   As the co-founder of Creative … read more

Similar categories in Michael Ovitz's Who Is Michael Ovitz? book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • nonfiction
  • entrepreneurship
  • business
  • audiobook
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8. Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

By: Matt Higgins

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Executive fellow at Harvard Business School, Guest Shark on Shark Tank, and famed angel investor Ma… read more

Similar categories in Matt Higgins's Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"No visions are ever rendered to us in the dead of night that we are incapable of pursuing at the break of dawn."

-Matt Higgins, Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

"Breakout success means training your mind to pursue opportunity before the tipping point of evidence, in the interstitial space between intuition and data."

-Matt Higgins, Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

"The key to unlocking potential is to embrace your highest competitive advantage: you are the only one who has the full story of your life. YOU are the one subject about which there will never be a gr…"

-Matt Higgins, Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

"So often, data is merely insurance against self-delusion. It won’t (and it shouldn’t) provide the green light. In fact, research too often ends up serving as a reason people give up before they start…"

-Matt Higgins, Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

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9. Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations

By: Ron Shaich

4.32

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Ron Shaich, founder and former CEO of Panera Brea… read more

Similar categories in Ron Shaich's Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • audiobook
  • leadership
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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10. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

Similar categories in Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

By: Zoe Chance

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rediscover the superpower that makes good things happen, from the professor behind Yale School of M… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Chance's Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"As you release your fear of hearing no, you gain the freedom to ask for things. Pg 58"

-Zoe Chance, Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

"No matter how often I see it happens, I'm still surprised by the lengths to which strangers will go to be helpful just to because they are asked Pg 59"

-Zoe Chance, Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

"Framing is how spellcasting works in the real world. Just by describing something or giving it a name, you called it into being. Well chosen frame can determine what’s relevant, what’s important, or …"

-Zoe Chance, Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

"Framing is magical stuff. It determines people’s experiences and even shapes how they think. An effective frame can be so sticky that it becomes hard to see things from a different perspective. Once …"

-Zoe Chance, Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen

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12. Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports

By: John Feinstein

4.07

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is t… read more

Similar categories in John Feinstein's Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO

By: Elizabeth Joy Zalman

4.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How many world-changing startups will fail because the founders and investors never figure out how … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Joy Zalman's Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • entrepreneurship
  • business
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14. Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

By: Uri Levine

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Unicorns—companies that reach a valuation of more than $1 billion—are rare. Uri Levine has built tw… read more

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  • audiobook
  • self help
  • entrepreneurship
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
"Make your mistakes fast"

-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

"Product market fit (PMF) or die"

-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution"

-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

"VCs are slow, until they think they're going to lose the deal"

-Uri Levine, Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution

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15. 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

Similar categories in Ilya Strebulaev's The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • nonfiction
  • entrepreneurship
  • business
  • leadership
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16. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

Similar categories in Luis Elizondo's Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

17. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

Similar categories in Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

By: Suneel Gupta

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking book that boldly claims the key to success in business is not talent, connections,… read more

Similar categories in Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • personal development
  • entrepreneurship
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership
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19. The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network

By: David Robson

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This groundbreaking study reveals how social connections are far more important than we thought, sh… read more

Similar categories in David Robson's The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble by Alok Sama

20. The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble

By: Alok Sama

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and entertaining memoir that offers a rare C-suite window on the world of technology inv… read more

Similar categories in Alok Sama's The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble book and Suneel Gupta's Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You

  • nonfiction
  • business
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21. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • leadership

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Transform Your Habits

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Daniel H. Pink

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Will Guidara

4.45

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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

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Michael Ovitz

4.19

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Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Transform Your Habits

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Salman Khan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

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Bill Maher

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