Books like The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky

The Lean Startup presents a systematic, scientific approach for creating and managing successful startups in uncertain environments, emphasizing rapid experimentation, customer feedback, and iterative product development.

Clayton Christensen explains why leading firms can fail when they follow the right strategy, and offers rules for exploiting disruptive innovation to avoid losing market leadership.

Blue Ocean Strategy explains how companies can create uncontested market space and make competition irrelevant through innovative value creation.

A practical guide that provides tools and techniques for systematically understanding, designing, and implementing new business models, as well as renovating and improving existing ones.

ISBN: 9780029253601

Bill Gates explains how information technology and electronic commerce can be leveraged as strategic assets to improve business management and drive future transformation.

Three successful black women executives reveal practical strategies for building confidence, effective communication, collaboration, and courage, while navigating stereotypes and self-victimization to advance careers.

This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that define its modes of operation. The focus of the book is analytical and forward-looking. It shows that Islamic finance exists mainly as a form of rent-seeking legal-arbitrage. In every aspect of finance - from personal loans to investment banking, and from market structure to corporate governance - Islamic finance aims to replicate in Islamic forms the substantive functions of contemporary financial instruments, markets, and institutions. By attempting to replicate the substance of contemporary financial practice using pre-modern contract forms, Islamic finance has arguably failed to serve the objectives of Islamic law. This book proposes refocusing Islamic finance on substance rather than form. This approach would entail abandoning the paradigm of 'Islamization' of every financial practice. It would also entail reorienting the brand-name of Islamic finance to emphasize issues of community banking, micro-finance, and socially responsible investment.

Along with telling the story of his life and personal business success, Kevin O'Leary explains how to be a successful businessperson, entrepreneur, and personal investor.

The book will help you understand the patterns of great value propositions, get closer to customers, and avoid wasting time with ideas that won't work. You'll learn the simple but comprehensive process of designing and testing value propositions, taking the guesswork out of creating products and services that perfectly match customers' needs and desires. Practical exercises, illustrations and tools help you immediately improve your product, service, or new business idea. In addition the book gives you exclusive access to an online companion on Strategyzer.com.