Books like The up side of down by Megan McArdle

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

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.

Carol Dweck explores how the two fundamental mindsets—fixed and growth—shape our attitudes, goals, and success across work, relationships, and parenting, offering practical strategies to shift from stagnation to opportunity.

Travis Macy shares the "ultra mindset"—a set of simple principles that help readers embrace fear, rewrite limiting stories, and ask for help—to achieve extraordinary goals in business, fitness, and life.

"In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet, as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations-performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning systems-remain stubbornly remedial, exclusively focused on measuring skills, finding gaps, and attempting to plug them. It's a crisis for individuals and organizations, with management ideas and management practice utterly out of sync. That's about to change. StandOut 2.0 is a revolutionary book and tool that enables you to identify your strengths, and those of your team, and to act on them. The original StandOut provided top-notch management insights from one of the world's foremost authorities on strengths, as well as access to a powerful, cutting edge online assessment tool. Now, in addition to a much more powerful assessment, and a robust report on your most dominant strengths, StandOut 2.0 provides: - A StandOut profile, easily customized and exported, that you can use to present the very best of yourself to your team, and your company - Your own Personalized Strengths Channel, which, after taking the 15 minute assessment, will send you a weekly tip, insight, or technique, to help you do your best work this week - For team leaders, the ability to create a team dashboard including each member's StandOut profile, to help you make the right moves - Access to an entire strengths-based performance management system, including a check-in tool to capture priorities and track engagement; a survey tool to help you gauge what your team is thinking and feeling; and an evaluation tool to help reveal real-time performance levels of every single team member StandOut 2.0 is your indispensable guide and tool for building on your strengths to further your career, and to help your team and organization win"--

George Mumford blends mindfulness principles with sports psychology to help athletes, executives and everyday performers achieve peak performance and personal growth.

An updated guide for women to achieve business success, adapting Napoleon Hill's classic principles with case studies of leading female leaders and addressing the unique challenges of family life.

A 259‑page mentorship that couples personal anecdotes with practical career advice, drawn from Aliza Licht’s rise as a global fashion communications executive and social‑media influencer.

Bob Proctor’s first trade book distills sixty‑seven key principles of success into A‑to‑Z essays, offering clear, practical guidance on persistence, winning, effectiveness, and vision for anyone aspiring to achieve their dreams.

Explores how leaders balance risk and success, analyzing historic and contemporary figures to reveal essential skills that prevent lasting failure and achieve ultimate success.

Fredrik Eklund reveals the principles that turned him from a newcomer in New York into the city’s top real‑estate broker and a star on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York—teaching readers how to sell themselves and achieve professional and personal success.

Wayne Allyn Root shares his relentless pursuit of success in a motivational guide for aspiring entrepreneurs and capitalists.