Book summaries for B2B growth

Books that propelled my own career, distilled into crisp notes, examples, and practical ways B2B marketers can apply the ideas.

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$100M Leads
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$100M Leads

Alex Hormozi

Clear take on list building, offers and outreach. See how to adapt the playbook for B2B, protect your domain, and turn attention into qualified pipeline.

$100M Offers
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$100M Offers

Alex Hormozi

A practical guide to shaping offers that convert. Translate ideas into pricing, guarantees and copy you can test this quarter with real customers.

Atomic Habits
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Atomic Habits

James Clear

Turn habit theory into daily practice for marketers. Simple cues, tiny wins and scorecards that help teams deliver consistently under pressure.

Breakthrough Advertising
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Breakthrough Advertising

Eugene M. Schwartz

A field guide to message market fit. Use stages of awareness to pick angles, craft offers and brief ads that speak to real pains and jobs.

Building a Second Brain
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Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte

How to store research, briefs and ideas so you can reuse them later. A calm framework for notes that supports experiments and content.

Buy back your time
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Buy back your time

Dan Martell

A straight guide to reclaiming hours. Define your buyback rate, document tasks and build small systems that pay back every week.

Checklist Manifesto
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Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

Why checklists work, where to use them, and examples for launches, experiments and migrations. Keep quality high and stress low.

Clockwork
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Clockwork

Mike Michalowicz

A clear way to design responsibilities and handoffs. Use time maps and simple dashboards to remove bottlenecks and protect focus.

Company of One
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Company of One

Paul Jarvis

Lessons for keeping work simple and profitable. Focus on retention, systems and selective growth that preserves quality.

Deep Work
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Deep Work

Cal Newport

A playbook for concentration in modern teams. Set focus blocks, reduce context switching and build a culture that values deep work.

Digital Minimalism
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Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

How to reduce low value tools and feeds. Practical steps to tidy notifications, choose channels and free up time for impact.

Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Disciplined Entrepreneurship

Bill Aulet

Step by step approach to define customers, test value and design a go to market path that leads to repeatable revenue.

Dotcom Secrets
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Dotcom Secrets

Russel Brunson

Translate funnel templates into clean journeys. Focus on offers, sequences and pages that convert instead of tactics that age badly.

E-Myth Revisited
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E-Myth Revisited

Michael Gerber

A practical case for SOPs in growth teams. Design roles, write checklists and build a rhythm for continuous improvement.

Essentialism
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Essentialism

Greg McKweon

Rules for choosing fewer, better projects. Protect time, set trade offs and align efforts with clear goals and measures.

Expert secrets
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Expert secrets

Russel Brunson

Position your expertise, tell stories that teach, and build simple offers that move buyers from interest to action.

Fix this next
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Fix this next

Mike Michalowicz

A decision tool for prioritising growth work. Diagnose where to act, then pick a small change that unlocks progress now.

Founder brand
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Founder brand

Dave Gerhardt

A guide to purposeful visibility. Choose topics, set a cadence and turn posts, talks and interviews into warm conversations.

Getting Things Done
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Getting Things Done

David Allen

Capture, clarify and review without friction. Keep projects moving with weekly reviews and clear next actions.

Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt

A sharp test for strategy quality. Diagnose, choose guiding policies and design actions that compound over quarters.

Hacking growth
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Hacking growth

Sean Ellis

A practical framework for experiments and insights. Build loops, run tests and adopt a cadence that ships learning every week.

Influence
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Influence

Robert Cialdini

Classic psychology translated for B2B. Use social proof, scarcity and reciprocity in a way that respects buyers.

Lean Analytics
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Lean Analytics

Alistair Croll

Pick the One Metric that Matters for your stage. Build lean dashboards and use data to decide the next best move.

Lean Startup
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Lean Startup

Eric Ries

A disciplined approach to experiments. Define hypotheses, design MVPs and learn before you scale.

Managing The Professional Service Firm
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Managing The Professional Service Firm

David H. Maister

A classic on leading expert teams. Balance sales, delivery and culture with numbers that keep the firm strong.

Measure What Matters
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Measure What Matters

John Doerr

A clear guide to OKRs for growth teams. Write good objectives, choose key results and run cadences that stick.

Principles
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Principles

Ray Dalio

A set of tools for clearer thinking and teamwork. Create principles, run post mortems and make better decisions together.

Pyramid Principle
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Pyramid Principle

Barbara Minto

A method for clear writing and slides. Lead with the answer, group logic well and make recommendations easy to approve.

Rework
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Rework

Jason Fried

Short essays that challenge default habits. Focus on product, talk to customers and cut pretend work.

SYSTEMology
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SYSTEMology

David Jenyns

A step by step way to document and improve processes so the team delivers consistent results without heroics.

Scaling Up
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Scaling Up

Verne Harnish

Practical tools for scaling a company. Use rhythms, scorecards and priorities to keep a growing team aligned.

Slow productivity
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Slow productivity

Cal Newport

A humane approach to output. Plan seasons, protect focus and deliver work that matters at a sustainable pace.

Spin selling
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Spin selling

Neil Rackham

A clear walkthrough of Situation, Problem, Implication, Need payoff with examples that match complex deals.

Startup growth engines
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Startup growth engines

Sean Ellis

A tour of growth case studies. Identify engines, spot patterns and design experiments that fit your context.

The 10X rule
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The 10X rule

Grant Cardone

A filter for action and attitude. Use big goals wisely, pair with systems and avoid noisy busyness.

The 4-Hour work week
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The 4-Hour work week

Tim Ferriss

A pragmatic look at delegation, automation and lifestyle design. Keep the useful parts, skip the hype, ship more value.

The 80/20 Principle
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The 80/20 Principle

Richard Koch

Use Pareto thinking to pick channels, ideas and customers. Cut the long tail and double down on what works.

The Goal
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The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

A novel that teaches constraint thinking. Apply it to backlogs, reviews and handoffs to speed delivery.

The One Thing
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The One Thing

Gary Keller

A method for ruthless focus. Ask the focusing question, block time and protect momentum on the work that matters most.

The Pumpkin Plan
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The Pumpkin Plan

Mike Michalowicz

A simple system for selective growth. Identify winners, cut distractors and nurture the right segments.

The Science of Selling
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The Science of Selling

David Hoffeld

Research backed techniques for discovery, framing and closing that marketers can support with better assets.

The Ultimate Blueprint
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The Ultimate Blueprint

Keith J. Cunningham

A practical summary of how businesses really grow. Clear levers, simple maths and actions you can take this quarter.

The road less stupid
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The road less stupid

Keith J. Cunningham

A punchy book on decision quality. Use thinking time, write assumptions and avoid expensive mistakes.

Traction
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Traction

Gino Wickman

A practical operating system for small teams. Install a cadence, set priorities and create accountability that sticks.

Traction (channels)
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Traction (channels)

Gabriel Weinberg

A method to discover your best channel. Prioritise, test and focus resources where traction is most likely.

Traffic secrets
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Traffic secrets

Russel Brunson

A broad look at audience building. Useful ideas for content, partnerships and email that compound over time.

Work The System
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Work The System

Sam Carpenter

A plain approach to system thinking. Write procedures, make small fixes and keep operations tidy as you scale.