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We asked the Techstars community for “the best entrepreneurial leadership and management books they’ve ever read” and now we’re passing those recommendations on to you!

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Recommended by: Fletcher Richman, Founder & CEO of BubbleIQ (Techstars Boulder 2018)

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Radical Candor by Kim Scott 

Recommended by: Paul Cothenet CTO at MadKudu (Techstars Boulder 2015)

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15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer

Recommended by: Todd Heine, Founder & CEO of LegalPad (Techstars Seattle 2018)

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Good to Great by Jim Collins

Recommended by: Brian Geihsler, Founder & CEO of VendorHawk (Techstars Seattle 2017) 

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The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

Recommended by: Anna Barber, Managing Director for Techstars Los Angeles

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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal

Recommended by: Christina Vila, Founder & CEO of Cledara (Techstars London 2019) 

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Scaling Up by Verne HarnishScaling Up by Verne Harnish

Recommended by: Max Faingezicht, Techstars Mentor, Founder & CEO of ThriveHive (Techstars Boston 2015)

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Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

Recommended by: Shaun Johnson, Techstars Mentor and co-founder of Startup Institute

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Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux

Recommended by: Sofie Blakstad, Founder & CEO of Hive (Techstars Berlin 2019) 

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The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

Recommended by: Nina Iordanova, Founder & CEO at Hello Iris (Techstars Montreal AI 2019)

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