100 Best Lean Startup Books of All Time

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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses book cover1

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries

5.0
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned profes
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail book cover2

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Clayton M. Christensen

4.5
The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, renowned author Clayton M. Christensen.

His work is cited by the world’s best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller—now updated with a fresh new package—innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market leadership. Read th
Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works book cover3

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

Ash Maurya

4.4
We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We’re building more products than ever before, but most of them fail—not because we can’t complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.

What we need is a systematic process for quickly vetting product ideas and raising our odds of success. That’s the promise of Running Lean.

In
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days book cover4

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz

4.4
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company book cover5

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

4.4
Now a decade after the Four Steps to the Epiphany
sparked the Lean Startup revolution, comes its sequel…
The Startup Owner's Manual

The Manual incorporates 10 years of learning and best practices
that have swept the startup world. It:

Incorporates the "Business Model Canvas" as the organizing principle for
startup hypotheses
Provides separate paths and advice for web/mobile products versus
physical p
UX for Lean Startups book cover6

UX for Lean Startups

Laura Klein

4.3
Great user experiences (UX) are essential for products today, but designing one can be a lengthy and expensive process. With this practical, hands-on book, you’ll learn how to do it faster and smarter using Lean UX techniques. UX expert Laura Klein shows you what it takes to gather valuable input from customers, build something they’ll truly love, and reduce the time it takes to get your product t
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers book cover7

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

Geoffrey A Moore

4.3
The bible for bringing cutting-edge products to larger markets--now revised and updated with new insights into the realities of high-tech marketing

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore shows that in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle--which begins with innovators and moves to early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards--there is a vast chasm between the early adopters and the ea
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback book cover8

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

Dan Olsen

4.3
The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love"The Lean Product Playbook" is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, ste
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win book cover9

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win

Steve Blank

4.3
The bestselling classic that launched 10,000 startups and new corporate ventures - The Four Steps to the Epiphany is one of the most influential and practical business books of all time. The Four Steps to the Epiphany launched the Lean Startup approach to new ventures. It was the first book to offer that startups are not smaller versions of large companies and that new ventures are different than
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers book cover10

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

4.3
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 -Business Model Canvas- practitione
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want book cover11

Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want

Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, and Alan Smith

4.3
If you liked "Business Model Generation," you'll love "Value Proposition Design." The sequel builds on the same visual format and practical tools that made the first one so useful. It shows you how to use the Value Proposition Canvas, a practical business tool to design, test, create, and manage products and services customers want. It compliments and perfectly integrates with the Business Model C
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster book cover12

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz

4.3
Whether you’re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. Lean Analytics steers you in the right direction.

This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers, decide what to build, how to monetize your business, and how to spread the word. Pa
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability book cover13

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

4.3
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.

In this 3rd edition, Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Don’t Make Me Think a classic-–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usabil
Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams book cover14

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams

Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden

4.3
Lean UX has become the preferred approach to interaction design, tailor-made for today's agile teams. In the second edition of this award winning book, leading advocates Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden expand on the valuable Lean UX principles, tactics, and techniques covered in the first edition to share how product teams can easily incorporate design, experimentation, iteration, and continuous lear
Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth book cover15

Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth

Ash Maurya

4.2
A hands-on guide to the metrics that matter most to young tech startups.

In the early stages of a tech startup's life, it's hard to decipher the meaningful
metrics from the distractions. How do you know if your product is working? Is it
the number of new signups? Average amount of time spent on the site? Revenue,
even if you don't have a revenue model yet?

In Scaling Lean, serial entrepreneur and autho
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The Startup Way: Making Entrepreneurship a Fundamental Discipline of Every Enterprise

Eric Ries

4.2
Entrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses ranging from established companies to early-stage startups to grow revenues, drive innovation, and emerge as truly modern organizations poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the 21st century.

In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries laid out the practices of
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth book cover17

The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor

4.2
A seminal work by bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen, now updated with fresh examples.

In the international bestseller The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen exposed the Achilles’ heel of many companies: by ignoring the disruptive technologies that evolve to displace them, they help initiate their own demise. In The Innovator’s Solution, Christensen and Michael Raynor take the idea of
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer book cover18

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer

Jeffrey Liker

4.2
"This book will give you an understanding of what has made Toyota successful and some practical ideas that you can use to develop your own approach to business."--Gary Convis, Managing Office of Toyota

Fewer man-hours. Less inventory. The highest quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer. In factories around the globe, Toyota consistently raises the bar for manufacturing, p
The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets book cover19

The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets

Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits, Eric Ries

4.2
Leverage the framework of visionaries to innovate, disrupt, and ultimately succeed as an entrepreneurThe Lean Entrepreneur, Second Edition banishes the "Myth of the Visionary" and shows you how you can implement proven, actionable techniques to create products and disrupt existing markets on your way to entrepreneurial success. The follow-up to the New York Times bestseller, this great guide combi
Talking to Humans: Success starts with understanding your customers book cover20

Talking to Humans: Success starts with understanding your customers

Giff Constable

4.2
The Practice of Management book cover21

The Practice of Management

Peter F. Drucker

4.2
A classic since its publication in 1954, The Practice of Management was the first book to look at management as a whole and being a manager as a separate responsibility. The Practice of Management created the discipline of modern management practices. Readable, fundamental, and basic, it remains an essential book for students, aspiring managers, and seasoned professionals.
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you book cover22

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

Rob Fitzpatrick

4.2
The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak.

They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fa
Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy book cover23

Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy

Cindy Alvarez

4.2
How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research--before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.

With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, you'll learn how your prospective customers
Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money book cover25

Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money

Pat Flynn

4.2
Stop rushing into businesses born from half-baked ideas, misguided theories, and other forms of self-delusion. A lack of proper validation kills more businesses than anything else. As Joel Barker says, “Speed is only useful if you’re running in the right direction.” Will It Fly? will help you make sure you are clear for takeoff. It answers questions like:

- Does your business idea have merit?
- W
Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale book cover26

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, Barry O'Reilly

4.2
How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale—and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization, rather than with just one department or team.

Through case st
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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits

4.2
"This is a must read for all startups and stakeholders."
- Steve Blank, author of The 4 Steps to the Epiphany, creator of Customer Development methodology

"The Entrepreneur's Guide is an easy read. It is written in a conversational tone, doesn't take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff."

- Eric Ries, Author & Creator of the Lean Startup methodology

"Get the CustDev book to dive deep in
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The Lean Six SIGMA Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to Nearly 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed: A Quick Reference Guide to 70 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed

Michael L. George

4.2
Provides the tools for implementing Lean Six Sigma - what they are, how they work, and which to use. This book presents the tools and concepts needed to understand, implement, and leverage Lean Six Sigma. It provides analyses of nearly 100 tools and methodologies - from DMAIC and Pull Systems to Control Charts and Pareto Charts.
Mind Your Business: Plan Your Business and Turn Your Creative Passion Into Your Full-Time Gig book cover29

Mind Your Business: Plan Your Business and Turn Your Creative Passion Into Your Full-Time Gig

Ilana Griffo

4.1
This is not your mama's business plan. Mind Your Business is created for entrepreneurial women (and men--you're welcome too!) who want to turn their creative passions into a full-time job. If you dream of building a business doing what you love, this book is for you. So you're sick of the hustle, and ready to take your talents to the next level, but the thought of taking the "leap" is intimidating
Kaizen: The Complete Guide to Implementing the Smart Concept of Continuous Improvement of All the Strategic Operations in the Development Process Involving the Lean and Agile Startup Team book cover30

Kaizen: The Complete Guide to Implementing the Smart Concept of Continuous Improvement of All the Strategic Operations in the Development Process Involving the Lean and Agile Startup Team

Josh Wright

4.1
Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research book cover31

Validating Product Ideas: Through Lean User Research

Tomer Sharon, Noam Lamdan

4.1
(C)lean Messaging: A framework to help startup founders talk to humans book cover32

(C)lean Messaging: A framework to help startup founders talk to humans

Scott Brown

4.1
What if your startup messaging for customers & investors was as clean as your code? The Lean Startup movement revolutionized how we build a modern startup. And yet, startup founders continue to struggle with how to talk about their amazing idea in a way that will generate media coverage, sales and social buzz. The (C)lean Messaging framework helps startup founders perfect their sales, marketing &
The Lean Marketplace: a Practical Guide to Building a Successful Online Marketplace Business book cover33

The Lean Marketplace: a Practical Guide to Building a Successful Online Marketplace Business

Juho Makkonen and Cristóbal Gracia

4.1
Inspired by the success of platforms such as Airbnb, Etsy or Fiverr? Want to know how to build an online marketplace business?

You've come to the right place. In this step by step guide, we will go through everything you need to know about developing your idea into a sustainable business, offering lots of practical advice and actionable ideas along the way.

This book is the result of two experts put
Machine that Changed the World book cover34

Machine that Changed the World

James P. Womack

4.1
Today, the industrial world is experiencing the most revolutionary change since Henry Ford's assembly line -- which forever changed the way things are made. Japanese companies are sweeping the world, as Western companies and governments struggle to find ways to emulate them.
The Machine That Changed the World points for the first time to a positive way out of this dilemma. It shows that being defe
Toyota Production System: Beyond large-scale production book cover35

Toyota Production System: Beyond large-scale production

Taiichi Ohno

4.1
In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno--inventor of the Toyota Production System and Lean manufacturing--shares the genius that sets him apart as one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time. Combining his candid insights with a rigorous analysis of Toyota's attempts at Lean production, Ohno's book explains how Lean principles can improve any production endeavor. A historical and phil
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development book cover36

The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

Donald G. Reinertsen

4.1
In this book, Reinertsen provides an examination of product development practices. He explains why invisible and unmanaged queues are the underlying root cause of poor product development performance. He shows why these queues form and how they undermine the speed, quality, and efficiency in product development.
Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want book cover37

Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want

Étienne Garbugli, Annemarie Vander Veen, François Maisonneuve

4.1
www.leanb2bbook.com

« This is a must read for every B2B entrepreneur, SaaS creator or consultant and business school student. It's the kind of book you don't read once, you go back to it on a regular basis. » - Carmen Gerea, CEO & Co-founder, UsabilityChefs

Lean B2B helps entrepreneurs and innovators quickly find traction in the enterprise.

Used by thousands around the world and packed with more than
The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work book cover38

The Lean Farm: How to Minimize Waste, Increase Efficiency, and Maximize Value and Profits with Less Work

Ben Hartman

4.1
A practical, systems-based approach for a more sustainable farming operation

To many people today, using the words "factory" and "farm" in the same sentence is nothing short of sacrilege. In many cases, though, the same sound business practices apply whether you are producing cars or carrots. Author Ben Hartman and other young farmers are increasingly finding that incorporating the best new ideas f
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development book cover39

The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership: Achieving and Sustaining Excellence through Leadership Development

Liker

4.1
About the Book: The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership Despite the fact that companies worldwide have adopted Lean production, none has sustained the same levels of excellence as Toyota. Why? Leadership. In The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership, Jeffrey Liker and Gary L. Convis, a former Executive Vice President at Toyota, help executives and senior managers get employees to refocus their efforts-from simp
40

The Lean Enterprise: How Corporations Can Innovate Like Startups

Trevor Owens and Obie Fernandez

4.1
Discover the methods of lean startups that can revolutionize large organizations and their products

Even in a tough economic climate, the startup business community has found a way to create innovative, game-changing products in shockingly short timeframes. So why should larger, more established companies take notice? Because they have everything to gain when they examine and adopt the strategies,
Lean from the Trenches book cover41

Lean from the Trenches

Henrik Kniberg

4.1
Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice.

Find out how the Swedish police combined XP, Scrum, and Kanban in a 60-person project. From start to finish, you'll see how to deliver a successful product using Lean principles.

We start with an organization in desperate need of a new way of doing things and finish with a group of sixty, all working in sync to develop a scalable, complex system
Lean Six Sigma: The Complete Guide to Combine the Six Sigma Process and Lean Production Speed to Instantly Grow Your Start Up book cover42

Lean Six Sigma: The Complete Guide to Combine the Six Sigma Process and Lean Production Speed to Instantly Grow Your Start Up

Homer Herring

4.1
Slicing Pie Handbook: Perfectly Fair Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups book cover43

Slicing Pie Handbook: Perfectly Fair Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups

Mike Moyer

4.1
Entrepreneurs and early-stage company participants get taken advantage of so frequently that we hardly notice. Bad equity deals are the rule, not the exception. The Slicing Pie Handbook outlines a framework for perfectly fair equity splits for early-stage, bootstrapped startup companies. Based on model popularized by the book Slicing Pie. The Slicing Pie Handbook will help you determine the right
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results book cover44

Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results

Mike Rother

4.1
"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way."--James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute. This game-changing book puts you behind the curtain of Toyota, providing new insight into the legendary automaker's management practices and offering practical guidance for leading and developing pe
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Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation

Karen Martin

4.1

The first of its kind—a Value Stream Mapping book written for those in service and office environments who need to streamline operations

Value Stream Mapping is a practical, how-to guide that helps decision-makers improve value stream efficiency in virtually any setting, including construction, energy, financial service, government, healthcare, R&D, retail, and technology. It gives you the tools

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit book cover46

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit

Mary Poppendieck / Tom Poppendieck Poppendieck / Poppendieck

4.1
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit

Adapting agile practices to your development organization
Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle Practical techniques for every development manager, project manager, and technical leader Lean software development: applying agile principles to your organization

In Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck id
Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights book cover47

Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights

Steve Portigal

4.1
Interviewing is a foundational user research tool that people assume they already possess. Everyone can ask questions, right? Unfortunately, that's not the case. Interviewing Users provides invaluable interviewing techniques and tools that enable you to conduct informative interviews with anyone. You'll move from simply gathering data to uncovering powerful insights about people.

Interviewing Users
Traversing the Traction Gap: Developing a Market-First Mindset to Engineer Your Go-To-Market Success book cover48

Traversing the Traction Gap: Developing a Market-First Mindset to Engineer Your Go-To-Market Success

Bruce Cleveland and Wildcat Venture Partners

4.1
Vision, groundbreaking ideas, total commitment, and boundless enthusiasm characterize most startups, but they require capital to go from promising product in a potential blockbuster category to scalable business. However scrappy they are, industry statistics show that more than 80 percent of all early-stage startups fail. Most can build a product, but the vast majority stumble when it comes time t
The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan book cover49

The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan

John Mullins

4.1
The New Business Road Test shows how to assess market opportunities. Building on lessons learned by studying numerous entrepreneurs, the book details the author's seven domains model for assessing new business ideas. The model is comprised of four market and industry domains and three related to the entrepreneurial team. These seven domains address the central questions in the assessment of any ma
The Toyota Engagement Equation: How to Understand and Implement Continuous Improvement Thinking in Any Organization book cover50

The Toyota Engagement Equation: How to Understand and Implement Continuous Improvement Thinking in Any Organization

Tracey Richardson

4.1
From two Toyota insiders--a practical, proven formula for developing a successful Lean culture in any organization

In 1986, Toyota opened a factory in rural Kentucky and unveiled TPS, its revolutionary management system. While most manufacturers and organizations now use Lean methods, the application is almost always superficial and confined within existing management frameworks. Consequently, the
Intercom On Starting Up book cover51

Intercom On Starting Up

Des Traynor, Eoghan McCabe, et al.

4.1
With the insane volume of startup literature already out there writing this book wasn’t a no-brainer for us. No one wants to add to the scrap heap. But if you restrict yourself to only reading articles from people who have actually created a business, hit some revenue target, or broken out of the MVP-in-an-incubator stage, there’s very few books and blogs left. This is why we hope this book is rel
Lean Mastery Collection: 8 Books in 1 - Lean Six Sigma, Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Lean Analytics, Agile Project Management, Kanban, Scrum, Kaizen ... for Scrum, Kanban, Sprint, DSDM XP & Crystal) book cover52

Lean Mastery Collection: 8 Books in 1 - Lean Six Sigma, Lean Startup, Lean Enterprise, Lean Analytics, Agile Project Management, Kanban, Scrum, Kaizen ... for Scrum, Kanban, Sprint, DSDM XP & Crystal)

Jeffrey Ries

4.1
Testing with Humans: How to Use Experiments to Drive Faster, More Informed Decision Making. book cover53

Testing with Humans: How to Use Experiments to Drive Faster, More Informed Decision Making.

Giff Constable and Frank Rimalovski

4.1
Testing with Humans, the sequel to bestseller Talking to Humans, teaches entrepreneurs, innovation teams, and product teams how to run effective experiments. An experiment is a test designed to help you answer the questions
The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition book cover54

The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition

Steven J. Spear

4.1
Generate Better, Faster Results-- Using Less Capital and Fewer Resources!

"[The High-Velocity Edge] contains ideas that form the basis for structured continuous learning and improvement in every aspect of our lives. While this book is tailored to business leaders, it should be read by high school seniors, college students, and those already in the workforce. With the broad societal application of t
Lean Production Simplified: A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System book cover55

Lean Production Simplified: A Plain-Language Guide to the World's Most Powerful Production System

Pascal Dennis

4.1
Following in the tradition of its Shingo Prize-winning predecessors, Lean Production Simplified, Third Edition gives a clear overview of the structure and tools of the Lean production system. Written for the practitioner by a practitioner, it delivers a comprehensive insider's view of Lean management. The author helps readers grasp the system as a whole, as well as the factors that animate it, by
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The Toyota Way Fieldbook

JeffreyLiker and David Meier

4.1
The Toyota Way Fieldbook is a companion to the international bestseller The Toyota Way. The Toyota Way Fieldbook builds on the philosophical aspects of Toyota's operating systems by detailing the concepts and providing practical examples for application that leaders need to bring Toyota's success-proven practices to life in any organization. The Toyota Way Fieldbook will help other companies learn
The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success book cover57

The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success

Howard Love

4.1
A predictable pattern of success
Entrepreneurs who have read early drafts of The Start-Up J Curve responded, ''I wish I had this book years ago.''

A start-up unfolds in a predictable pattern; the more aware entrepreneurs are of this pattern, the better able they will be to capitalize on it. Author Howard Love calls this pattern the start-up J Curve: The toughest part of the endeavor is the time bet
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Lean Analytics: How to Use Data to Track, Optimize, Improve and Accelerate Your Startup Business (Lean Guides with Scrum, Sprint, Kanban, DSDM, XP & Crystal Book 1)

Greg Caldwell

4.1
Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture book cover59

Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture

Elissa Shevinsk

4.1
Why aren’t the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted?

Should people who don’t fit in seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them?

Does the tech industry deserve women leaders?

The split between the stated ideals of the corporate elite and the reality of working life for women in the tech industry—whether in large public tech companies or VC-backed start-ups,
Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Third Edition book cover60

Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions, Third Edition

David Mann

4.1
Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award

The new edition of this Shingo Prize-winning bestseller provides critical insights and approaches to make any Lean transformation an ongoing success. It shows you how to implement a sustainable, successful transformation by developing a culture that has your stakeholders throughout the organizational chart involved and invested in the o
Lean Startups for Social Change: The Revolutionary Path to Big Impact book cover61

Lean Startups for Social Change: The Revolutionary Path to Big Impact

Michel Gelobter

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For years, the lean startup has been revolutionizing both new and established businesses. In this eye-opening book, serial social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter shows how it can do the same for nonprofits.
Traditionally, whether creating a new business or a new program, entrepreneurs in all sectors develop a plan, find money to fund it, and pursue it to its conclusion. The problem is, over time cond
The Toyota Kata Practice Guide: Practicing Scientific Thinking Skills for Superior Results in 20 Minutes a Day book cover62

The Toyota Kata Practice Guide: Practicing Scientific Thinking Skills for Superior Results in 20 Minutes a Day

Mike Rother

4.1
Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing: From the Stone Age to Lean Manufacturing and Beyond book cover63

Faster, Better, Cheaper in the History of Manufacturing: From the Stone Age to Lean Manufacturing and Beyond

Christoph Roser

4.1
The industrial revolution, mechanization, water and steam power, computers, and automation have given an enormous boost to manufacturing productivity. "Faster, Better, Cheaper" in the History of Manufacturing shows how the ability to make products faster, better, and cheaper has evolved from the stone age to modern times. It explains how different developments over time have raised efficiency an
Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban book cover64

Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban

Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene

4.1
Agile revolutionized the way people think about developing software, but there are literally dozens of ways that you can "go agile." While one team may find a particular agile practice easy to use, another team may find the same practice devilishly difficult. This book demystifies agile methodologies: why they’re designed the way they are, what problems they address, and the values, principles, an
The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work book cover65

The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work

Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield, Elizabeth J. Altman

4.1
More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks and seize disruptive opportunities.

In The Innovator's Guide to Growth, Scott Anthony, Mark Johnson
Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model book cover66

Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model

John Mullins and Randy Komisa

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You have a new venture in mind. And you've crafted a business plan so detailed it's a work of art. Don't get too attached to it.

As John Mullins and Randy Komisar explain in Getting to Plan B, new businesses are fraught with uncertainty. To succeed, you must change the plan in real time as the inevitable challenges arise. In fact, studies show that entrepreneurs who stick slavishly to their Plan A
HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands book cover67

HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands

David Cancel

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The Lean Practitioner's Field Book: Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work book cover68

The Lean Practitioner's Field Book: Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work

Charles Protzman

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While there are numerous Lean Certification programs, most companies have their own certification paths whereby they bestow expert status upon employees after they have participated in or led a certain number of kaizen events. Arguing that the number of kaizen events should not determine a person's expert status, The Lean Practitioner's Field Book: Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techni
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups (featuring Bonus Article “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything” by Steve Blank) book cover69

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups (featuring Bonus Article “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything” by Steve Blank)

Harvard Business Review

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The Principles of Scientific Management

Frederick Winslow Taylor

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It seems, at first glance, like an obvious step to take to improve industrial productivity: one should simply watch workers at work in order to learn how they actually do their jobs. But American engineer FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR (1856-1915) broke new ground with this 1919 essay, in which he applied the rigors of scientific observation to such labor as shoveling and bricklayer in order to streamli
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Lean Six SIGMA for Dummies

John Morgan and Martin Brenig-Jones

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Maximise the quality and efficiency of your organisation with Lean Six Sigma

Are you looking to make your organisation more effective and productive? If you answered "yes," you need to change the way it thinks. Combining the leading improvement methods of Six Sigma and Lean, this winning technique drives performance to the next level and this friendly and accessible guide shows you how. The third e
Edge: Value-Driven Digital Transformation book cover72

Edge: Value-Driven Digital Transformation

Jim Highsmith

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Today's enterprises are achieving incremental outcomes in a world of exponential opportunities. Why are their digital transformations falling short? Poor execution: enterprise capabilities are proving inadequate in areas ranging from portfolio management to software delivery. Now, ThoughtWorks' pioneering digital transformation experts introduce EDGE: a powerful new operating model that closes the
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How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement: A Primer for Becoming the Best in the World

Joakim Ahlstrom

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Your organizational transformation begins here! Comprehensive, detailed, and easy to read and understand, How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement takes you through a real-life case study of one organization's journey to a world-class continuous improvement process.

Joakim Ahlstrom--one of the world's most respected continuous improvement experts--serves as your coach. He first helps you decide w
Agile Experience Design: A Digital Designer's Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous book cover74

Agile Experience Design: A Digital Designer's Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous

Lindsay Ratcliffe, Marc McNeill

4.0
Agile development methodologies may have started life in IT, but their widespread and continuing adoption means there are many practitioners outside of IT--including designers--who need to change their thinking and adapt their practices. This is the missing book about agile that shows how designers, product managers, and development teams can integrate experience design into lean and agile product
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Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance

Karen Martin

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Award-winning business performance improvement and Lean management expert Karen Martin diagnoses a ubiquitous business management and leadership problem--the lack of clarity--and outlines specific actions to dramatically improve organizational performance.

Through her global consulting projects, keynote speeches, and work with thousands of leaders, Karen has seen first-hand how a pervasive lack of
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Operations Management for Dummies

Mary Ann Anderson

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Score your highest in Operations Management Operations management is an important skill for current and aspiring business leaders to develop and master. It deals with the design and management of products, processes, services, and supply chains. Operations management is a growing field and a required course for most undergraduate business majors and MBA candidates. Now, Operations Management For D
How To Launch a Startup: An easy to understand 9-step guide to make your startup idea a real business book cover77

How To Launch a Startup: An easy to understand 9-step guide to make your startup idea a real business

Milan Steskal, Alexandra Steskal, Angela Ash

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The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems

Michael Lewrick, Patrick Link, et al.

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A radical shift in perspective to transform your organization to become more innovative

The Design Thinking Playbook is an actionable guide to the future of business. By stepping back and questioning the current mindset, the faults of the status quo stand out in stark relief--and this guide gives you the tools and frameworks you need to kick off a digital transformation. Design Thinking is about ap
The Product Manager's Survival Guide, Second Edition: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed as a Product Manager book cover79

The Product Manager's Survival Guide, Second Edition: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed as a Product Manager

Steven Haines

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Advance in your product management career and create innovative products that customers love!


Regardless of industry or sector, to compete in today's business world, product managers must understand how their customer's preferences change, how technology evolves, and how anticipate what competitors might do. Regardless of industry, you need a reliable resource that provides timely guidance and p
The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas book cover80

The Innovator's Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More Than Good Ideas

Michael Schrage

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Achieving faster, better, cheaper, and more creative innovation outcomes with the 5X5 framework: 5 people, 5 days, 5 experiments, $5,000, and 5 weeks.

What is the best way for a company to innovate? Advice recommending "innovation vacations" and the luxury of failure may be wonderful for organizations with time to spend and money to waste. The Innovator's Hypothesis addresses the innovation priori
The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Lean Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence book cover81

The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Lean Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence

Larry E. Fast

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Following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Lean Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence, Second Edition outlines a comprehensive, proven process for delivering world-class performance while also cultivating the right culture through leadership, mentoring, and hourly associate involvement.



While most books on continuous i
People Over Process: Leadership for Agility book cover82

People Over Process: Leadership for Agility

Michael K Levine

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This book helps participants in agile software development environments learn to become leaders. Facilitative leaders should be at every level of the organization, from individual contributor to informal team leader to managers of all stripes -- it takes much focus and intentionality from senior organizational leaders, who have special obligations in creating successful lean and agile development
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Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation

George Koenigsaecker

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Updated with new information, illustrations, and leadership tools, Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation, Second Edition describes how the metrics used by Toyota drive every line item in a financial statement in the right direction. Rather than focus on Lean tools and principles, the new edition of this bestselling reference focuses on what may be the least understood and most critical aspec
Beyond The Prototype: A roadmap for navigating the fuzzy area between ideas and outcomes. book cover84

Beyond The Prototype: A roadmap for navigating the fuzzy area between ideas and outcomes.

Douglas Ferguson

4.0
Lean Strategy book cover85

Lean Strategy

Michael Balle, Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, Orest Fiume

4.0
A groundbreaking and revolutionary book that will transform how lean is understood, practiced, and used within organizations

A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to think about their own jobs and smarter ways of working
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Lean Mobile App Development: Apply Lean startup methodologies to develop successful iOS and Android apps

Mike van Drongelen, Adam Dennis, et al.

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Essentials of Supply Chain Management

Michael H. Hugos

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The bestselling guide to the field, updated with the latest innovations

Essentials of Supply Chain Management is the definitive guide to the field, providing both broad coverage and necessary detail from a practical, real-world perspective. From clear explanation of fundamental concepts to insightful discussion of supply chain innovation, this book offers students and professionals a comprehensive
Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now book cover88

Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now

Bernhard Schroeder

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Entrepreneurs have long been taught that to be successful, they need to spend months perfecting a business plan and finding investors before they can finally launch their business. But with the marketplace changing at lightning speed, this notion is not only outdated--it's costly.

There's no point to building a business in a bubble. Today's entrepreneurs must embrace the idea of "failing fast." Th
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Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management

Paul Myerson

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.

Expert Strategies for Improving Supply Chain and Logistics Performance Using LeanThis practical guide reveals how to identify and eliminate waste in your organization's supply chain and logistics function. Lean S
The Lean Six SIGMA Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration book cover90

The Lean Six SIGMA Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration

Frank Voehl

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Although Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration explains how to integrate these seemingly dissimilar approaches to increase production speed while decreasing variations and costs in your organization.



Pres
Lean Branding: Creating Dynamic Brands to Generate Conversion book cover91

Lean Branding: Creating Dynamic Brands to Generate Conversion

Laura Busche

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Every day, thousands of passionate developers come up with new startup ideas but lack the branding know-how to make them thrive. If you count yourself among them, Lean Branding is here to help.

This practical toolkit helps you build your own robust, dynamic brands that generate conversion. You'll find over 100 DIY branding tactics and inspiring case studies, and step-by-step instructions for buildi
The Service Startup: Design Thinking gets Lean book cover92

The Service Startup: Design Thinking gets Lean

Tenny Pinheiro, Joel Stein, Lucas Toledo

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A practical guide to integrate Service Design Thinking and Lean Startup in the service era.

"Pinheiro will inspire you to think differently about business, design, education, and - perhaps most importantly - the way you work every day."
- Kerry Bodine, co-author of Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business

"In this book, Tenny offers some extremely valid and hard-hit
Experiencia de usuario para lean startups: cómo investigar y diseñar con mayor inteligencia y rapidez book cover93

Experiencia de usuario para lean startups: cómo investigar y diseñar con mayor inteligencia y rapidez

Laura Klein and Javier López Manzano

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Pull Production for the Shopfloor book cover94

Pull Production for the Shopfloor

Productivity Press Development Team…

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In a "pull" production system, the final process pulls needed parts from the previous process, which pulls from the process before it, and so on, as determined by customer demand. This allows you to operate without preset schedules and avoid unnecessary costs, wastes, and delays on the manufacturing floor.Pull Production for the Shopfloor introduces production teams and managers to basic pull prod
The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck: Practical Tips and Tricks for Launching and Operating SAFe Agile Release Trains book cover95

The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck: Practical Tips and Tricks for Launching and Operating SAFe Agile Release Trains

Em Campbell-Pretty

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In The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck, Em and Adrienne share their "trade secrets" for launching and operating powerful and effective Agile Release Trains. There's a lot at stake when launching an Agile Release Train. When taking on an Enterprise Lean-Agile Transformation you only get one shot at a first impression. Runaway trains are expensive. Money gets wasted, time gets lost and the reputationa
Lean Startup: How to Apply the Lean Startup Methodology to Innovate, Accelerate, and Create Successful Businesses (Lean Guides with Scrum, Sprint, Kanban, DSDM, XP & Crystal Book 4) book cover96

Lean Startup: How to Apply the Lean Startup Methodology to Innovate, Accelerate, and Create Successful Businesses (Lean Guides with Scrum, Sprint, Kanban, DSDM, XP & Crystal Book 4)

Greg Caldwell

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Lean for Dummies book cover97

Lean for Dummies

Natalie J. Sayer

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Take charge and engage your enterprise in a Lean transformationHave you thought about using Lean in your business or organization, but are not really sure how to implement it? Or perhaps you're already using Lean, but you need to get up to speed. "Lean For Dummies" shows you how to do more with less and create an enterprise that embraces change. In plain-English, this friendly guide explores the g
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What Is Lean Six SIGMA

Michael L. George

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A quick introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma to improve your workplace, meet your goals, and better serve your customers.

Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you'll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the t
Lean Office and Service Simplified: The Definitive How-To Guide book cover99

Lean Office and Service Simplified: The Definitive How-To Guide

Drew Locher

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Winner of a 2012 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award Demystifying the application of Lean methods, Lean Office and Service Simplified: The Definitive How-To Guide goes beyond the basic tools to detail the key concepts of Lean as they apply to office and service environments. It begins by discussing value stream management, followed by chapters on standard work, flow, level pull, and
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Managerial Accounting

Carl S. Warren

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Warren/Reeve/Duchac�s MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING 14E provides the foundation in managerial accounting fundamentals that you need to succeed by clearly showing how accounting is important to business. Business examples and a unique chapter schema provide context for readers, demonstrating how each chapter�s content fits into the big picture, connecting fundamental concepts with real businesses. Addition