15 Top business books like Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win by Feng Zhu

Cover of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win by Feng Zhu

Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win

By: Feng Zhu

3.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A new, researched-based look at how traditional or smaller companies can better compete with Big Te…

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1. The Wisdom Of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

By: Mihir Desai

4.01

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

"A fascinating new perspective on modern finance," --Oliver Hart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics"… read more

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"Finance's starting point in valuation is that previous accomplishments and what you have today bear little relationship to real value. Finance is completely and ruthlessly forward-looking. The only s…"

-Mihir Desai, The Wisdom Of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

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2. Anything You Want

By: Derek Sivers

4.11

Format: 256 pages,

The creator of CDBaby.com shares what he has learned over his ten years of starting and growing CDB… read more

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3. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

By: Seth Godin

4.00

Format: 279 pages,

The old saying is wrongwinners do quit, and quitters do win. Every new project (or job, or hobby, o… read more

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4. 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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"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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5. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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6. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

By: Andrew Chen

4.19

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen H… read more

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7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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8. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

By: Steven Bartlett

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more

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9. The 6 Types of Working Genius

By: Patrick Lencioni

4.15

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that w… read more

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10. It's All Sun and Games

By: Portia MacIntosh

4.19

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Pre-order the BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud, love triangle summer romantic comedy from MILLION-COPY BEST… read more

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11. The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines

By: Matt Beane

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising g… read more

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

12. 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

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13. The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work

By: David De Cremer

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Leaders, don't let AI get the best of you. AI is coming fast and will affect every part of a busine… read more

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Cover of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win by Feng Zhu

14. Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win

By: Feng Zhu

3.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A new, researched-based look at how traditional or smaller companies can better compete with Big Te… read more

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15. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World

By: Parmy Olson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot calle… read more

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16. 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

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17. 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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18. The Year in Tech, 2025: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series)

By: Harvard Business Review

3.07

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place. From generative AI to fintech to spat… read more

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19. The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

By: Tae Kim

4.28

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

"The definitive look at the most remarkable business story of this era."—Morgan Housel, New York Ti… read more

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Cover of Reset: How to Change What's Not Working by Dan Heath

20. Reset: How to Change What's Not Working

By: Dan Heath

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Made to Stick, Switch, and The Power of Moments co… read more

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21. The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook: How to Lead High-Performing Sales Teams (HBR Handbooks)

By: Prabhakant Sinha

4.44

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Sales leadership essentials for an era of rapidly advancing digital technology. Effective sales ma… read more

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4.64

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4.14

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