The Great Books Project

The Great Books Project aims to distill the wisdom of the greatest and most useful business and self-improvement books of all time. Till date, we have done 200+ books and we haven't finished. You may also want to see The Success Manual - which contains concise summaries and advice from 100+ great books gurus. 

Writing Skills
Writing lessons from Writing to Deadline - The Journalist at Work
The Writing Wisdom of William Zinsser

Blogging
Summary of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog: The Success Manual
Blogging lessons from Naked Conversations

Studies
The Ultimate Guide to Succeeding as a Student - Part 2 - Taking Exams
The Ultimate Guide to Succeeding as a Student - Part 1 - Learning

Self Improvement - Success, Productivity...
Self improvement lessons from The Magic of Thinking Big
Self improvement lessons from Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fullfillment
Self improvement lessons from What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Life Lessons from The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Balthasar Gracian
The best of Dale Carnegie: Lessons from his three great books
The Greatest Life-Changing Wisdom from Randy Pausch's Last Lecture
The Greatest Life Lessons from Morrie Schwartz
Lessons from Garry Kasparov's How Life Imitates Chess
The Essential Wisdom of Regina Brett
The 10 Best Life Lessons From Ben Casanocha
Self improvement lessons from the 80/20 Principle - The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less
Self improvement lessons from The 80 - 20 Individual
The 3 Lessons from Neil Pasricha's The Book Of Awesome
Lessons from 12 bad habits
Self Improvement Lessons from Maximum Achievement
12 Life Lessons from 'Whatever You Think Think the Opposite' by Paul Arden
Success lessons from Outliers - The Story of Success
Time management lessons from the Pomodoro Technique
100+ Productivity Lessons from the 4-Hour Work Week
Timeless Productivity lessons from The Power of Less
Productivity lessons from Eat that Frog: 21 Ways to stop Procrastination and get More Done in Less Time
13 Life Lessons from Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk
Life Lessons from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
Life lessons from Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Life Lessons from A Gift to My Children

Happiness
Happiness lessons from Learned Optimism
Happiness lessons from The Pursuit of Happiness
The 5 Good and 5 Bad Lessons from the Happiness Project

Money
20 Money Lessons from P.T. Barnum
The Best of Suze Orman's Financial Advice: 40+ Tips and Tricks
Top 10 Money Lessons of Ramit Sethi
More Investing lessons from The Investor's Manifesto
Investing lessons from The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read
Money lessons form Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
Investing and sundry life lessons from Charlie Munger

Health & Nutrition
The 14 Best pieces of Weight-Loss Wisdom from Geneen Roth
The 3 Main Lessons from Jamie's Food Revolution

Communication Skills
Communication lessons from Secrets of the world's greatest business communicators
Networking lessons from Never Eat Alone
Networking Secrets from How to work a room
Lessons about sticky communications from Made To Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Startups
Entrepreneurship lessons from Startup Nation

Negotiation Skills
Negotiation lessons from Getting Past No
Negotiation lessons from Getting to Yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in

Sales Skills
Sales secrets from Secrets of Great Rainmakers
Selling lessons from How to sell a lobster
Selling lessons from How I Raised myself from failure to success in selling
Selling lessons from Secrets of Closing the Sale
Selling lessons from Little Red Book of Selling
Selling lessons from Ice to the Eskimos - How to Sell a Product Nobody Wants
Selling lessons from Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping

Marketing Skills
Service Marketing lessons from Selling the Invisible - A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Summary: The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

100 Guerilla Marketing Weapons
Summary: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Marketing lessons from Laws of Branding
Lessons from All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
Marketing lessons from Naked Marketing -­ The Bare Essentials
Marketing lessons from The End of Marketing As We Know It
Marketing Lessons from Permission Marketing ­ Turning Strangers into Friends, and Friends into Customers by Seth Godin
Marketing lessons from The Marketing Playbook

Pricing
Pricing lessons from Priceless
Marketing lessons from The Profit Zone by Adrian Slywotzky

Web Development & Marketing
58 Lessons on Web Development from Getting Real
Web designing lessons from Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
Online marketing lessons from Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
Online Community Building lessons from Tribes by Seth Godin

Web 2.0/Social Media
Social marketing lessons from Citizen Marketers - When People Are the Message
Lessons from You Are Not a Gadget
Insights from Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Social Media Lessons from The Whuffie Factor
Social Media Lessons from Groundswell
Lessons from The Wisdom of Crowds
Web 2.0 lessons from CrowdSourcing
Participation lessons from Wikinomics
New Media Lessons from the Cluetrain Manifesto
15 Lessons from Chris Brogan, author of Trust Agents: The Success Manual
Web 2.0 lessons from Here Comes Everybody
25 New Media Lessons from Futuretainment by Mike Walsh

Career
Career lessons from Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout
Career Lessons from Recession-Proof Graduate
Career lessons from Linchpin by Seth Godin
Career lessons from Career Warfare
Career lessons from What the CEO Wants You to Know

Creativity
Insights from The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
39 Great Lessons for Creative People: A Summary of Hugh Macleod's Ignore Everybody
Design lessons from Design of Everyday Things

Freelancing/Consulting
Consulting Business lessons from Flawless Consulting

Project Management
Lessons from The Art of Project Management

Business & Management
Peter Drucker' Rules of Management: The Best that Drucker ever said or wrote
The Best of Guy Kawasaki: the best Guy Ever Wrote or Said
The Best of Seth Godin: The Best Seth has Written or Said
Business lessons from How the Mighty Fall
Summary of Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
Management lessons from Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
Insights from Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust
Management lessons from The One Minute Manager
Business strategy lessons from Co-Opetition
Management lessons from Crisis Marketing - When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies
Management lessons from Focus ­ The Future of Your Company Depends On It
Management lessons from The Nature of managerial work
Management lessons from First Break all the rules
Management lesson from Parkinson's Law
Management lessons from The Dilbert Principle
Business lessons from Small is the New Big by Seth Godin
Business Lessons from Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin
Business Lessons from Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin
14 Management Lessons from The Toyota Way
Insights from The Big Questions
Lessons about bringing change from "Switch” by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Lessons from Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson
Management lessons from Blue Ocean Strategy
Management lessons from What Would Google Do?
Decision making lessons from Nudge
Lessons from The Long tail by Chris Anderson
Management lessons from Good To Great by Jim Collins
Business lessons from Reality Check
Management lessons from the Peter Principle
Strategy lessons from The Art of War
Management lessons from The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
12 Management Lessons from Rework
Lessons about the changing world from The World is Flat

Choice/Consumer Behavior
Insights from Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Insights from The Art of Choosing
Lessons from The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Lessons from The Laws of Choice - Predicting Customer Behavior
Lessons on making choices from The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less

Lessons from 'How We Decide' by Jonah Lehrer
Lessons from Simplicity by Edward De Bono

Economics
Economics Lessons from Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Insights from Identity Economics
Insights from Soccernomics
Insights from SuperFreakonomics
Economics lessons from Freefall

Future/Trends
Trend insights from Clicking - 16 Trends to Future Fit Your Life, Your Work and Your Business
Future proofing lessons from The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World
Three Lessons from The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Important Lesson from Fooled by Randomness

Being Better Is Better.  - Kathy Sierra

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