Business Book Club
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Business Book Club turns business books and expert ideas into practical lessons on decision-making, strategy, and founder development.
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Included for practical lessons that translate business books and expert ideas into usable guidance on decision-making, strategy, and founder development.
Showing 21 digests for Business Book Club.
Be More Pirate: three lessons on reputation, disruption, and flat teams
Business Book Club
May 11, 2026
Pivoting
8
Branding
8
Management
7
Pirates built the world's first super brand 150 years before Coca-Cola.
Piracy always reveals demand the market hasn't caught up with yet.
Removing hierarchy can make your business 30% more efficient.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Three lessons from The Psychology of Money for founders
Business Book Club
May 4, 2026
Resilience & grit
8
Cash flow management
7
Hiring & recruitment
6
Staying in the game beats intensity — compounding needs time to pay off.
Doubling down on what works outperforms chasing trends or shiny objects.
True wealth is invisible: runway and freedom, not status symbols.
Business operating systems
Podcast
Built to Sell: how to make your business valuable and exit-ready
Business Book Club
April 27, 2026
Business operating systems
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Management
6
Why being indispensable to your business makes it unsellable
Specialising in one thing is how services actually scale
Promoting on effort over outcomes creates a weak management layer
Founder interviews
Podcast
Stoic lessons for founders: control, discipline, and mortality
Business Book Club
April 20, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Pivoting
5
Why spending energy on uncontrollables destroys founders faster than failure
Discipline means knowing what 'enough' looks like — most founders never ask
Your business will likely fail; how you treated people determines what comes next
Leadership without blame: Jocko Willink's three tactics for founders
Business Book Club
April 13, 2026
Management
8
Delegation
7
Resilience & grit
5
Stepping back physically in a crisis outperforms diving in to fix it.
Owning failures publicly makes your whole team solution-focused, not defensive.
Decentralised command: push decisions to whoever sees the problem closest.
Leading from within: Parker Palmer's guide to authentic leadership
Business Book Club
April 7, 2026
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Management
6
Unexamined fears make leaders toxic — self-knowledge is the fix.
People follow leaders who believe, not leaders who have answers.
Community accountability is where individual inner work gets done.
Charlie Munger's mental models for smarter decisions and deeper trust
Business Book Club
March 30, 2026
Goal setting
9
Long-term planning
7
Communication
6
Single-domain expertise leaves you blind — build a latticework instead.
One catastrophic failure multiplies everything else by zero.
Trust is the most efficient economic force — and it must be deserved.
High Output Management: applying Andy Grove's framework to a remote team
Business Book Club
March 23, 2026
Management
9
Delegation
7
Business operating systems
6
Your output as a manager is your team's output — not yours.
Task-relevant maturity determines how much to delegate vs. direct.
Structured meeting cadence reduces interruptions across the rest of the week.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to stop confusing busy with productive: three lessons from Eat That Frog
Business Book Club
March 16, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
7
Do your hardest task first — before email steals your peak focus.
20% of actions drive 80% of results; say no to the rest.
Planning tonight saves ten minutes of execution tomorrow.
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Three hard lessons from Ben Horowitz for startup founders
Business Book Club
March 9, 2026
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
7
Why persistence — not pivoting — is the real founder superpower.
Wartime CEOs must be autocratic; peacetime mode will sink you in a crisis.
A spectacular hire outperforms a solid one by 10x for 30% more salary.
Five dysfunctions of a team: Lencioni's framework explained
Business Book Club
March 2, 2026
Management
10
Communication
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Why missing trust — not talent — kills most executive teams
Your department is not your most important team
Three tools to build self-awareness and accelerate trust
Cash flow management
Podcast
Profit First: the bank account system that forces profitability
Business Book Club
February 23, 2026
Cash flow management
10
Processes & SOPs
6
Taking profit first — not last — changes everything about spending
Separate bank accounts remove temptation better than willpower ever could
Start with 1% profit allocation; quarterly payouts make the habit stick
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Three lessons from Poor Charlie's Almanack for founders
Business Book Club
February 16, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Founder interviews
8
Long-term planning
7
Why doing less and waiting longer beats constant activity
Munger's curiosity habit: asking questions extracts more than answering them
Reputation takes 20 years to build and five minutes to destroy
Business operating systems
Podcast
Decision quality over outcomes: lessons from Thinking in Bets
Business Book Club
February 9, 2026
Business operating systems
9
Goal setting
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Good decisions can still lose — stop judging process by outcome.
Assign probabilities before you start, not only in the post-mortem.
Lucky wins are a trap: differentiate skill from variance using a repeatable process.
Business operating systems
Podcast
Visionary and integrator roles: the partnership behind business scale
Business Book Club
February 2, 2026
Business operating systems
9
Management
8
Why two co-CEOs stepping on each other's toes is a role problem.
A 90-day scorecard replaces most one-on-ones and surfaces problems early.
Rotating meeting hosts and banning 'seven' forces honest team feedback.