EA - A list of EA-relevant business books I've read by Drew Spartz

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A list of EA-relevant business books I've read, published by Drew Spartz on February 21, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Some have suggested EA is too insular and needs to learn from other fields. In this vein, I think there are important mental models from the for-profit world that are underutilized by non-profits.After all, business can be thought of as the study of how to accomplish goals as an organization - how to get things done in the real world. EA needs the right mix of theory and real world execution. If you replace the word “profit” with “impact”, you’ll find a large percentage of lessons can be cross-applied.Eight months ago, I challenged myself to read a book a day for a year. I've been posting daily summaries on social media and had enough EAs reach out to me for book recs that, inspired by Michael Aird and Anna Riedl, I thought it might be worth sharing my all-time favorites here.Below are the best ~50 out of the ~500 books I read in the past few years. I’m an entrepreneur so they’re mostly business-related. Bold = extra-recommended.If you’d like any more specific recommendations feel free to leave a comment and I can try to be helpful.Also - I’m hosting an unofficial entrepreneur meetup at EAG Bay Area. Message me on SwapCard for details or think it might be high impact to connect :)The best ~50 books:Fundraising:FundraisingThe Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New FutureLeadership/Management:The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy AnswersThe Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In BusinessThe Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead ForeverEntrepreneurship/Startups:Running LeanThe Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a StartupZero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the FutureThe Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great CompanyStrategy/Innovation:The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to youScaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don'tOperations/Get Shit Done:The Goal: A Process of Ongoing ImprovementThe Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business WinMaking Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & FlowStatistics/Forecasting:How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in BusinessSuperforecasting: The Art and Science of PredictionAntifragile: Things That Gain from DisorderWriting/Storytelling:Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First SentenceThe Story Grid: What Good Editors KnowProduct/Design/User Experience:The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network EffectsThe Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer FeedbackPsychology/Influence:SPIN Selling (unfortunate acronym)The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday LifeInfluence: The Psychology of PersuasionOutreach/Marketing/Advocacy:80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making MoreTraction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer GrowthHow to learn things faster:Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your CareerMake It Stick: The Science of Successful LearningThe Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your SkillsPersonal Development:The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable PerformanceThe Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and HappinessAtomic HabitsRecruiting/Hiring:RecruitingWho: The A Method for HiringNegotiating:Negotiation GeniusNever Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On ItSecrets of Power Negotiating: I...