Bookshelf — Arun Singh Shekhawat

Currently Reading

These are books I have either read and am writing up a review, or ones I’m reading.

wdt_ID	Title	Author	Genres	My Ratings	tags
1	Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes	Morgan Hausel	Nonfiction	5	Read
2	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies	Jared Diamond PH D	Anthropology	5	read
3	Early Indians : The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From	Tony Joseph			read
4	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind	Yuval Noah Harari			Read
5	Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE	Phil Knight			Read
6	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	Biography		Read
7	Elon Musk	Walter Isaacson	Biography		read
8	The Little Book of Hygge	Meik Wiking			Read
9	Elevated Economics: How Conscious Consumers Will Fuel the Future of Business	Richard Steel			Read
10	Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products	Marty Cagan, Chris Jones			Read
11	Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love	Marty Cagan	Nonfiction		Read
12	Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products	Martina Lauchengco			Read
13	Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy	Neel Mehta, Aditya Agashe, Parth Detroja			Read
14	Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value	Teresa Torres			Read
15	Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy	Alex Moazed, Nicholas L. Johnson			Read
16	The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects	Andrew Chen			Read
17	The Online Marketplace Advantage: Sell More, Scale Faster, and Create a World-Class Digital Customer Experience	Adrien Nussenbaum, Philippe Corrot			Read
18	Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy	Amrit Tiwana			Read
19	Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms	David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee			Read
20	The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business	Phil Simon			Read
21	The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society	Erich Joachimsthaler			Read
22	7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy	Hamilton Helmer		5	Read
23	Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters	Richard Rumelt		5	Read
24	Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs	David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano			Read
25	Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers	Geoffrey A. Moore			Read
26	That will never work	Marc Randolph			Read
27	How will you measure your life?	Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth			Read
28	Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen	Rita McGrath			Read
29	The CEO Factory : Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever	Sudhir Sitapati		3	read
30	Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action	Simon Sinek			Read
31	Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal and Flexible Approach to Innovation For The 21st Century	Navi Radjou , Jaideep Prabhu			Read
32	Fightback: How to win in the digital economy with platforms, ventures and entrepreneurs	Felix Staeritz, Simon Torrance			Read
33	Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity	Kim Scott			Read
34	Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow	Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais			Read
35	Human + Machine, Updated and Expanded: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI	Paul R. Daugherty, Jamie Renell			Read
36	Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price	Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke			Read
37	Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't	Jim Collins			Read
38	No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention	Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer			Read
39	Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World	Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani			Read
40	The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook	Niall Ferguson			reading
41	The Art of Action	Stephen Bungay			reading
42	Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet	Chris Dixon			reading
43	Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon	Colin Bryar, Bill Carr			read
44	Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future	Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
45	The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists	Richard P. Rumelt
46	Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making	Tony Fadell
47	Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company	Andrew S. Grove
48	Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs	John Doerr, Larry Page			read
49	Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies	Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh			read
50	Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You	Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
51	The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power	Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, David B. Yoffie
52	Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment	Sangeet Paul Choudary
53	Platform Scale for a Post-Pandemic World	Sangeet Paul Choudary

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This is a collection of various books that I have read and would recommend to others.

wdt_ID	Title	Author	Genres	My Ratings	tags
1	Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes	Morgan Hausel	Nonfiction	5	Read
2	Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies	Jared Diamond PH D	Anthropology	5	read
3	Early Indians : The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From	Tony Joseph			read
4	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind	Yuval Noah Harari			Read
5	Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE	Phil Knight			Read
6	Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	Biography		Read
7	Elon Musk	Walter Isaacson	Biography		read
8	The Little Book of Hygge	Meik Wiking			Read
9	Elevated Economics: How Conscious Consumers Will Fuel the Future of Business	Richard Steel			Read
10	Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products	Marty Cagan, Chris Jones			Read
11	Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love	Marty Cagan	Nonfiction		Read
12	Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products	Martina Lauchengco			Read
13	Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy	Neel Mehta, Aditya Agashe, Parth Detroja			Read
14	Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value	Teresa Torres			Read
15	Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy	Alex Moazed, Nicholas L. Johnson			Read
16	The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects	Andrew Chen			Read
17	The Online Marketplace Advantage: Sell More, Scale Faster, and Create a World-Class Digital Customer Experience	Adrien Nussenbaum, Philippe Corrot			Read
18	Platform Ecosystems: Aligning Architecture, Governance, and Strategy	Amrit Tiwana			Read
19	Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms	David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee			Read
20	The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business	Phil Simon			Read
21	The Interaction Field: The Revolutionary New Way to Create Shared Value for Businesses, Customers, and Society	Erich Joachimsthaler			Read
22	7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy	Hamilton Helmer		5	Read
23	Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters	Richard Rumelt		5	Read
24	Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs	David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano			Read
25	Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers	Geoffrey A. Moore			Read
26	That will never work	Marc Randolph			Read
27	How will you measure your life?	Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth			Read
28	Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen	Rita McGrath			Read
29	The CEO Factory : Management Lessons from Hindustan Unilever	Sudhir Sitapati		3	read
30	Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action	Simon Sinek			Read
31	Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal and Flexible Approach to Innovation For The 21st Century	Navi Radjou , Jaideep Prabhu			Read
32	Fightback: How to win in the digital economy with platforms, ventures and entrepreneurs	Felix Staeritz, Simon Torrance			Read
33	Radical Candor: Fully Revised & Updated Edition: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity	Kim Scott			Read
34	Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow	Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais			Read
35	Human + Machine, Updated and Expanded: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI	Paul R. Daugherty, Jamie Renell			Read
36	Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price	Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke			Read
37	Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't	Jim Collins			Read
38	No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention	Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer			Read
39	Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World	Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani			Read
40	The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook	Niall Ferguson			reading
41	The Art of Action	Stephen Bungay			reading
42	Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet	Chris Dixon			reading
43	Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon	Colin Bryar, Bill Carr			read
44	Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future	Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
45	The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists	Richard P. Rumelt
46	Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making	Tony Fadell
47	Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company	Andrew S. Grove
48	Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs	John Doerr, Larry Page			read
49	Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies	Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh			read
50	Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You	Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
51	The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power	Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, David B. Yoffie
52	Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment	Sangeet Paul Choudary
53	Platform Scale for a Post-Pandemic World	Sangeet Paul Choudary

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