Sobre los libros y los emprendedores

Algo que tienen en común todos los empresarios y emprendedores que conozco es que son ávidos lectores; Sin importar el momento en el que te topes con ellos, seguro comparten alguna o todas de estas características:

  • Están leyendo uno o más libros en ese momento.
  • Te pueden señalar el(los) libros que han marcado su vida.
  • Te pueden recomendar algún libro para tu situación en particular.

No intento que esta lista sea una de libros recomendados. La verdad es que dependiendo del momento en el que estés tú o tu empresa, los libros que te puedo recomendar varían; Más simple que eso: la idea atrás es simplemente enlistar los libros que he leído por si alguno te pudiera interesar.

También, tengo una lista de reproducción en mi canal de Yotube, en donde podrás encontrar videos sobre la mayoría de los libros de esta lista:

Si buscas alguna recomendación en específico, no dudes en enviarme un mensaje y con gusto podemos platicar al respecto. Por lo pronto, comencemos:

Libros del 2025

  1. The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win (Expanded Edition), Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
  2. Death’s End: 3, Cixin Liu
  3. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Yuval Noah Harari
  4. The Redemption of Time, Baoshu, Ken Liu
  5. Everything Is Figureoutable, Marie Forleo
  6. El libro de los Baltimore, Joël Dicker
  7. The Maidens, Alex Michaelides
  8. Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust, Adam Kahane
  9. El caso Alaska Sanders, Joël Dicker
  10. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

Libros del 2024

  1. Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy, Patrick Bet-David
  2. Simplicity, Edward De Bono
  3. Los hombres son de marte y las mujeres son de venus, John Gray
  4. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
  5. Influencing Virtual Teams: 17 Tactics That Get Things Done with Your Remote Employees, Hassan Osman
  6. Better Online Meetings: How to Facilitate Virtual Team Meetings in Easy Steps, Hassan Osman
  7. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, Carl Sagan
  8. The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team, Patrick M. Lencioni
  9. How to Day Trade for a Living: A Beginner’s Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology, Andrew Aziz
  10. The Wealth Money Can’t Buy: The 8 Hidden Habits to Live Your Richest Life, Robin Sharma
  11. What got you here, won’t get you there, Marshall Goldsmith
  12. ChatGPT for Better Business Communication: How to Use ChatGPT to Increase Productivity and Communicate More Effectively at Work, Hassan Osman
  13. The five dysfunctions of a team: A leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
  14. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
  15. Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent, Ryan Holiday
  16. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, Malcolm Gladwell
  17. Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, David Goggins
  18. The Three-Body Problem: 1, Cixin Liu
  19. The Dark Forest: 2, Cixin Liu
  20. The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni
  21. Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable… about Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business, Patrick Lencioni
  22. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Libros del 2023

  1. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential, Tiago Forte – https://youtu.be/ZlhYg4vDDgA?si=3rEnGbYrtnnMGGMP
  2. Relaciones de Poder en la Oficina: Supera las rivalidades. Evita los juegos de poder. Mejora las relaciones, Harvard Business Review
  3. El mundo de Sofía, Jostein Gaarder
  4. Los Cuatro Acuerdos: Un libro de sabiduría tolteca, Miguel Ruiz – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_br4OZbcPE&t=137s
  5. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell
  6. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwell
  7. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
  8. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline
  9. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness, Morgan Housel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUhlxD-84OY
  10. The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling, Scott Thele, Beverly Walker
  11. Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings, Thibaut Meurisse
  12. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari
  13. Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance, Erica Dhawan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDNEgoCe2jw
  14. The 5 Levels Of Leadership. Proven Steps To Maximize Your Potential, John C. Maxwell
  15. Cuentos Extraordinarios, Edgar Allan Poe
  16. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
  17. Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable, Tim S Grover (Autor), Shari Wenk – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eoZLP7rmYw
  18. Mentoring 101: What every leader needs to know, John C. Maxwell
  19. Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness, Tim S Grover (Autor), Shari Wenk
  20. The stars, like dust, Isaac Asimov
  21. El Kybalión de Hermes Trismegisto: Las 7 Leyes Universales, Tres iniciados
  22. The Mentoring Manual, Julie Starr
  23. The 48 laws of power, Robert Greene
  24. Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives, Brian Weiss
  25. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life, Steven Barlett
  26. Cómo hacer que te pasen cosas buenas, Marian Rojas Estapé

Libros del 2022

  1. El príncipe, Maquiavelo
  2. Nine lies about work, Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3vysvC8WyQ&t=1s
  3. Vicios y virtudes, Alejandro Ortega Trillo – https://youtu.be/Fj7KY0ipiSQ?si=FMDMr1Tz_6VWMTBc
  4. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness. Eric Jorgenson
  5. Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World, Brian J Robertson
  6. Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management, Edward de Bono – https://youtu.be/vYqZvnJlJMI?si=EnSiGyRLM_WFx7Cq
  7. Why Smart People Hurt: A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative, Eric Maisel
  8. México, Manual de usuario, Chumel Torres
  9. (2) La sombra del viento, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  10. (2) El juego del ángel, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  11. (2) El prisionero del cielo, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  12. (2) El laberinto de los espíritus, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Libros del 2021

  1. Mi planta de naranja-lima, Jose Mauro Vasconcelos
  2. Your Relationship GPA: Lessons from Harvard students on how to make time for what matters most, Stephen Turban, Greg M. Foster
  3. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You, Julie Zhuo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4k0PWGBZBQ
  4. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  5. El caballero de la armadura oxidada, Robert Fisher
  6. Stop Doing That Sh*t, Gary John Bishop
  7. A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload, Cal Newport
  8. Do the Work: The Official Unrepentant, Ass-Kicking, No-Kidding, Change-Your-Life Sidekick to Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop
  9. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B Peterson – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YYg-6XLuIs
  10. Scrum: Your Quick Start Guide To Adopting Scrum For Your Organization, Jefferson Hanley
  11. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, Mitch Albom – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApF_BQDPsXQ
  12. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
  13. Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Formula to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy…Create a Mass of Raving Fans…and Take Any Business to the Next Level, Ryan Levesque
  14. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, Jordan B Peterson
  15. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
  16. Filosofía en la calle: #FiloRetos para la vida cotidiana, Eduardo Infante – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDy-hPz1_yc

Libros del 2020

  1. Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cuDLDkAvNE&t=1s
  2. The High-Potential Leader: How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact, Ram Charan, Geri Willigan
  3. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear https://youtu.be/ZoK9p6WVQ0c?si=P-vcTlxjAVCW_Ce7
  4. Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, Leander Kahney
  5. Sales EQ: How Ultra High Performers Leverage Sales-Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal, Jeb Blount
  6. Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, Safi Bahcall
  7. Inside Steve’s Brain, Leander Kahney
  8. The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success, Harvey Deutschendorf
  9. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, Nir Eyal
  10. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, Malcolm Gladwell
  11. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
  12. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
  13. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
  14. Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O1fFfsG-1A&t=1s
  15. Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur, Derek Sivers
  16. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink
  17. Make Time,  Jake Knapp y John Zeratsky
  18. Superhuman Social Skills: A Guide to Being Likeable, Winning Friends, and Building Your Social Circle, Tynan
  19. Superhuman by Habit: A Guide to Becoming the Best Possible Version of Yourself, One Tiny Habit at a Time, Tynan
  20. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, Tim Ferris – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Duz-zNslgw
  21. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
  22. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work, Shawn Achor
  23. Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life, Gary John Bishop
  24. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Robert Iger – https://youtu.be/OWruQa4El7U?si=G66p5EradOa-F-Ae
  25. Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling, Matthew Dicks
  26. The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win, Jeff Haden – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or3jonXM8NE&t=200s
  27. Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World, J. Mark G. Williams, Danny Penman
  28. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight
  29. 1984, George Orwell
  30. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  31. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
  32. La sombra del viento, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  33. Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think, Dave Gray
  34. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World, Michael Pollan
  35. El juego del ángel, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  36. Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules: The Lost Writings, Napoleon Hill
  37. El prisionero del cielo, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  38. El laberinto de los espíritus, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  39. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers, Sönke Ahrens
  40. The E Myth Revisited, Michael E Gerber
  41. La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert, Joël Dicker
  42. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depended on It, Chris Voss – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNjmnKRSmSQ

Libros del 2019

  1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, Mark Manson – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhxp4fG1LDc
  2. Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter, Dan Ariely
  3. Insanely Simple: The obsession That Drives Apple’s Success, Ken Segall
  4. Entrepreneur Voices on Strategic Management
  5. Entrepreneur Voices on Company Culture
  6. Entrepreneur Voices on Effective Leadership
  7. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Bulding a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3mZNxWJGZM
  8. Entrepreneur Voices on Emotional Intelligence
  9. Entrepreneur Voices on the Science of Success
  10. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, Chris Anderson
  11. El Talento nunca es suficiente, John C. Maxwell
  12. Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking
  13. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, Austin Kleon
  14. Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcom Gladwell
  15. Payoff The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations, Dan Ariely
  16. Desde el piso 10, Martín Sánchez
  17. La historia de la República, Chumel Torres
  18. The Honest Truth about Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves, Dan Ariely
  19. El alquimista, Paulo Coelho
  20. Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level, Leander Kahney
  21. El coach de negocios, Bradley Sugar
  22. Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, John Doerr – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6R03875DtI
  23. Holacracy: The New Management System for a Rapidly Changing World, Brian J. Robertson – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXbWbfvRjSI
  24. The Compound Effect: Multiplying Your Success One Simple Step at a Time, Darren Hardy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuE0z_tiEAQ&t)
  25. Conversations for Action and Collected Essays: Instilling a Culture of Commitment in Working Relationships, Fernando Flores Dr
  26. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard H Thaler
  27. High Output Management, Andrew S Grove – https://youtu.be/jk653pcgNn0?si=TfWultyjcbhVks_X
  28. Amazing Decisions: The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals, Dan Ariely & Matt Trower
  29. Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_8q3gkOLBI&t=14s
  30. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, Keith Ferrazzi
  31. Managing the Mental Game, Jeff Boss
  32. Rework, Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  33. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman PhD
  34. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, Brad Stone
  35. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, Simon Sinek
  36. Nada, Jane Teller
  37. Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope, Mark Manson – https://youtu.be/8pOUHWpxHq8?si=0Nq75O4yjpiOXWO0
  38. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Adam Grant
  39. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport
  40. Xueños: La historia detrás de Xcaret, el mejor parque del mundo, Miguel Quintana Pali
  41. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture, Ben Horowitz
  42. Lo abstracto de emprender, Daniel Gómez Iñiguez
  43. The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life, Robin Sharma – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-fK1XDrJZM
  44. Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine, Mike Michalowicz (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOHSvC5A8ms)
  45. The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4Jbb8YqBc
  46. Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, Simon Sinek
  47. Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration, Simon Sinek
  48. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick), Seth Godin
  49. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
  50. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
  51. How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers, Mihir Desai
  52. The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, por Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh

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