The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
Your best customers can steer you away from the market that will replace you.
Read with: Kodak
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The Founder's Bookshelf
Books that explain why companies rise, stall and fall — curated by CA Archana Yadav.
Disruption & Decline
How the Mighty Fall
Jim Collins
Decline begins with leadership choices long before it appears in the numbers.
Read with: JCPenney · Kodak
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew Grove
Recognise the strategic inflection point before your existing playbook becomes a liability.
Read with: Kingfisher · Kodak
Strategy
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Replace ambitious slogans with a diagnosis, a guiding policy and coordinated action.
Playing to Win
A.G. Lafley & Roger Martin
Decide where to play and how to win before committing capital and talent.
Competitive Strategy
Michael Porter
Understand industry economics before mistaking revenue growth for a defensible position.
Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
Redesign the value proposition to create demand instead of fighting over existing customers.
Read with: Nirma · Reliance Jio
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Build a distinctive advantage rather than becoming another competitor in a crowded market.
Read with: Reliance Jio
Fraud & Governance
Financial Shenanigans
Howard Schilit
Interrogate cash flows and accounting incentives before trusting reported growth.
Read with: Satyam · Luckin Coffee
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Charisma is not evidence; make independent scrutiny non-negotiable.
Read with: Satyam · Luckin Coffee
Founders & Building
Good to Great
Jim Collins
Put disciplined people and a clear economic engine ahead of the next growth initiative.
Built to Last
Jim Collins
Protect your core purpose while continually reinventing how the business delivers it.
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
Pair freedom with talent density and candour, not with an absence of accountability.
Read with: Netflix
That Will Never Work
Marc Randolph
Test the business model in the market before becoming attached to the founding idea.
Read with: Netflix
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Lead through the decisions where every option hurts and no playbook can choose for you.
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Let customer obsession and long-term reinvestment compound into an operating advantage.
Indian Lens
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
C.K. Prahalad
Treat underserved customers as a market for innovation, not a cheaper version of your existing offer.
Read with: Nirma
Business Sutra
Devdutt Pattanaik
Understand the beliefs shaping decisions before trying to change organisational behaviour.