Books Recommended by Reid Hoffman
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Measure What Matters
How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
John Doerr
Source: "Whether you're a seasoned CEO or a first-time entrepreneur, you'll find valuable lessons, tools, and inspiration in the pages of [this book]. I'm glad [the author] invested the time to share these ideas with the world." - Reid Hoffman
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Source: "If you want the chance to turn your startup into the next Google or Twitter, then read this trenchant guide from someone who played key roles in the growth of these companies." - Reid Hoffman
Essentialism
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg Mckeown
Source: "Offers concise and eloquent advice on how to determine what you care about most, and how to apply your energies in ways that ultimately bring you the greatest rewards." - Reid Hoffman
The Lord of the Rings (4 books)
J. R. R. Tolkien
Source: "[The series] that I’ve most often read." - Reid Hoffman
Alpha Girls
The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime
Julian Guthrie
Source: "The story of four women who entered the tech industry to follow their dreams and managed through hard work and creativity to make those dreams come true." - Reid Hoffman
4 recommendersNew Power
How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You
Jeremy Heimans
Source: "An essential and extremely insightful guide for anyone who wants to maximize the opportunities for progress and impact in today’s new tightly connected world." - Reid Hoffman
Conscious Business
How to Build Value Through Values
Fred Kofman
Source: "[The author's] whole kind of thread is to say actually in fact, how you can express business and capitalism as a spiritual practice of compassion." - Reid Hoffman
3 recommendersTribal Leadership
Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
Dave Logan
Source: "Presents a clear road map for the new reality of managing organizations, careers, and life." - Reid Hoffman
The Inner Lives of Markets
How People Shape Them - And They Shape Us
Ray Fisman
Source: "Essential reading for any non-economist who wants to understand how markets shape our world." - Reid Hoffman
1 recommenderThe Airbnb Story
How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
Leigh Gallagher
Source: "Captures the remarkable journey of Airbnb exceedingly well." - Reid Hoffman
3 recommendersSmart People Should Build Things
How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America
Andrew Yang
Source: "About entrepreneurship for young people." - Reid Hoffman
1 recommenderThe Seventh Sense
Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
Joshua Cooper Ramo
Source: "Recently I’ve been giving out [this book]." - Reid Hoffman
3 recommendersSapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Source: "A grand theory of humanity." - Reid Hoffman
32 recommendersAshton KutcherBill GatesBill GurleyDaniel EkDemis HassabisJames CameronJoe RoganKarlie KlossKeith RaboisKishore BiyaniLex FridmanMark ZuckerbergNaval RavikantPeter AttiaRay DalioReid HoffmanRichard BransonRyan SheaSam KassSebastian JungerVinod KhoslaWhitney CummingsPewDiePieMelinda GatesAnthony PomplianoChangpeng ZhaoPatrick O'ShaughnessyChris EvansMark MansonSimon MayoPenn JilletteJames ClearThe Gene
An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Source: Reid Hoffman told McKinsey he was reading this book.
4 recommendersThis Brave New World
India, China, and the United States
Anja Manuel
Source: Reid Hoffman told McKinsey he was reading this book.
1 recommenderMore Human
Designing a World Where People Come First
Steve Hilton
Source: Reid Hoffman told McKinsey he was reading this book.
2 recommenders
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