PM Book Summaries

FOUNDATIONS

Book Summary: Competitive Strategy (Michael Porter)

Book Summary: The Innovator's Dilemma (Clayton Christensen)

Book Summary: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (Al Ries and Jack Trout)

Book Summary: Business Model Generation (Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur)

JOBS-TO-BE-DONE

Book Summary: The Innovator's Solution (Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor)

Book Summary: The Innovator's Guide to Growth (Scott Anthony, Mark Johnson, Joseph Sinfield and Elizabeth Altman)

Book Summary: Jobs-to-be-Done, Theory to Practice (Anthony Ulwick)

Book Summary: Service Innovation (Lance Bettencourt)

Book Summary: The Social Innovation Imperative (Sandra Bates)

Book Summary: The Statue in the Stone (W. Scott Burleson)

Book Summary: The Jobs to be Done Playbook (Jim Kalbach)

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Book Summary: Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

Book Summary: Made to Stick (Chip Heath and Dan Heath)

Book Summary: Drive (Daniel Pink)

Book Summary: Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)

Book Summary: How We Decide (Jonah Lehrer)

STRATEGIC MARKETING

Book Summary: Value Proposition Design (Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda and Alan Smith)

Book Summary: The Long Tail (Chris Anderson)

Book Summary: Differentiate or Die (Jack Trout)

Book Summaries: The Art of Pricing (Rafi Mohammed)

Book Summary: The 1% Windfall, How Successful Companies use Price to Profit and Grow (Rafi Mohammed)

FINANCE

Book Summary: Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements (Mary Buffett and David Clark)

Book Summary: Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs (Karen Berman, Joe Knight and John Case)

Book Summary: Accounting Made Simple (Mike Piper)

Book Summary: Valuation, Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart and David Wessels)

Book Summary: Venture Deals (Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson)

MARKET RESEARCH

Book Summary: The Market Research Toolbox (Edward McQuarrie)

Book Summary: Customer Visits (Edward McQuarrie)

Book Summary: Deploy Empathy (Michelle Hansen)

Book Summary: Voices into Choices (Mary J. Adams and Richard H. Kauffeld)

Book Summary: Continuous Discovery Habits (Teresa Torres)

DATA ANALYSIS

Book Summary: Naked Statistics (Charles Wheelan)

Book Summary: Thinking Statistically (Uri Bram)

Book Summary: How to Lie With Statistics (Darrell Huff)

Book Summary: Quantifying the User Experience (Jeff Sauro and James Lewis)

Book Summary: Turning Numbers into Knowledge (Jonathan Koomey)

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Book Summary: Product Leadership (Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson and Nate Walkingshaw)

Book Summary: Winning at New Products (Robert Cooper)

Book Summary: Designing for Growth, A Design Thinking Tool Kit (Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie)

Book Summary: Customer-Centric Product Definition (Sheila Mello)

IDEA GENERATION

Book Summary: The Art of Innovation (Tom Kelley)

Book Summary: Simplex, A Flight to Creativity (Min Basadur)

Book Summary: The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Book Summary: Sprint, Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Jake Knapp)

Book Summary: The Ten Faces of Innovation (Tom Kelley)

Book Summary: TRIZ for Dummies (Lilly Haines-Gadd)

Book Summary: The Innovation Algorithm (Genrich Altshuller)

Book Summary: 40 Principles, TRIZ Keys to Technical Innovation

PRODUCT DESIGN

Book Summary: Inspired (Marty Cagan)

Book Summary: Tuned In (Craig Stull, Phil Myers and David Meerman Scott)

Book Summary: Rework (Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson)

Book Summary: The Inmates are Running the Asylum (Alan Cooper)

Book Summary: The Persona Lifecycle (Tamara Adlin and John Pruitt)

Book Summary: Sprint, Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Jake Knapp)

Book Summary: Emotional Design

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY

Book Summary: The Art of Scalability (Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher)

Book Summary: Competing in the Age of AI (Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani)

Book Summary: Little Bets, How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries (Peter Sims)

Book Summary: Diffusion of Innovations: Everett Rogers)

Book Summary: Crossing the Chasm (Geoffrey Moore)

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Book Summary: Making Innovation Work (Tony Davila, Marc Epstein and Robert Shelton)

Book Summary: The Lords of Strategy (Walter Kiechel)

OPERATIONS

Book Summary: Operations Strategy (Nigel Slack and Michael Lewis)

Book Summary: Lean Thinking (James Womack and Daniel Jones)

Book Summary: Factory Physics (Wallace Hopp and Mark Spearman)

Book Summary: Out of the Crisis (W. Edwards Deming)

Book Summary: The Goal (Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox)

CULTURE

Book Summary: Reengineering the Corporation (Michael Hammer and James Champy)

Book Summary: Unrelenting Innovation (Gerard Tellis)

Book Summary: The Myths of Innovation (Scott Berkun)

Book Summary: The Essential Drucker (Peter Drucker)

TACTICAL MARKETING AND SALES

Book Summary: The Psychology of Selling (Brian Tracy)

Book Summary: Permission Marketing (Seth Godin)

Book Summary: Tribes (Seth Godin)

Book Summary: All Marketers are Liars (Seth Godin)

Book Summary: Your Marketing Sucks (Mark Stevens)

Book Summary: Relationship Marketing

Book Summary: The One to One Future

Book Summary: Demand-Side Sales 101 (Bob Moesta)

Book Summary: The Ultimate Sales Machine (Chet Holmes and Amanda Holmes)

Book Summary: SPIN Selling (Neil Rackham)

Book Summary: Value-Based Fees

PRODUCTIVITY

Book Summary: The One Thing (Gary Keller and Jay Papasan)

Book Summary: Essentialism, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Greg McKeown)

Book Summary: Deep Work (Cal Newport)

Book Summary: Atomic Habits (James Clear)

Book Summary: Getting Things Done (David Allen)

Book Summary: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)

Book Summary: The 4 Disciplines of Execution (Chris McChesney, Sean Covey and Jim Huling)

COMMUNICATION

Book Summary: On Writing Well (William Zinsser)

Book Summary: The Sense of Style,

Book Summary: Sin and Syntax, How to Craft Wicked Good Prose (Constance Hale)

Book Summary: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (Carmine Gallo)

Book Summary: Talk Like Ted (Carmine Gallo)

MAGIC

Book Summary: The Essential Wooden (John Wooden and Steve Jamison)

Book Summary: Tools of Titans (Tim Ferriss)

Book Summary: Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

Book Summary: The Four Agreements (Don Miguel Ruiz)

Book Summary: Poor Charlie's Almanack (Charlie Munger)

Book Summary: Ego is the Enemy (Ryan Holiday)

Book Summary: The Daily Drucker (Peter Drucker)

Book Summary: Rework (Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson)

Book Summary: The Pocket Guide to Action (Kyle Eschenroeder)