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2025 Summer Reading List – Book Recommendations From Guests of The VentureFizz Podcast

It’s summertime, which means vacations and lazy days!

To help you build out your summer reading list, we’ve pulled together a bunch of books that have been suggested by some of the guests we’ve had on The VentureFizz Podcast this year.

You’ll find lots of great books to help out with your business and books focused on personal improvement! Clicking the name of the person recommending will take you to their podcast episode.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution:Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

by Chris McChesneySean CoveyJim Huling

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

by Hamilton Helmer 

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

by Liz Wiseman

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

by Admiral William H. McRaven

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

by Patrick M. Lencioni

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

by W. Chan Kim, Renee  Mauborgne

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz 

Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup

by Bill Aulet

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making―Personal Journey from Product Designer to Mentor

by Tony Fadell

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

by Dale Carnegie

Measure What Matters: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth

by John Doerr

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way

by Steven Pressfield

A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System: The Early Years (1875-1925)

by M.D. Fagen

After the Idea: What It Really Takes to Create and Scale a Startup

by Julia Austin

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