Portfolio Summaries and Reviews

See all summaries and reviews from Portfolio at a glance.

10 Book

Growth IQ
Get Smarter About the Choices That Will Make or Break Your Business
Tiffani Bova
Portfolio, 2018
9 Book

How to Talk to Your Boss About Race
Speaking Up Without Getting Shut Down
Y-Vonne Hutchinson
Portfolio, 2022
9 Book

Always Day One
How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever
Alex Kantrowitz
Portfolio, 2020
9 Book

Brag Better
Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion
Meredith Fineman
Portfolio, 2020
9 Book

Wild Ride
Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination
Adam Lashinsky
Portfolio, 2017
9 Book

Leadership Is Language
The Hidden Power of What You Say – and What You Don’t
L. David Marquet
Portfolio, 2020
9 Book

Billion Dollar Burger
Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food
Chase Purdy
Portfolio, 2020
9 Book

Start at the End
How to Build Products That Create Change
Matt Wallaert
Portfolio, 2019
9 Book

Stillness Is the Key
Ryan Holiday
Portfolio, 2019
9 Book

No Hard Feelings
The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
Portfolio, 2019
9 Book

Clockwork
Design Your Business to Run Itself
Mike Michalowicz
Portfolio, 2018
9 Book

Problem Solving 101
A Simple Book for Smart People
Ken Watanabe
Portfolio, 2009
9 Book

Digital Minimalism
Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Cal Newport
Portfolio, 2019
9 Book

Shark Tales
How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business
Bruce Littlefield and Barbara Corcoran
Portfolio, 2011
9 Book

Under the Hood
Fire Up and Fine-Tune Your Employee Culture
Stan Slap
Portfolio, 2015
9 Book

Trust Me, I’m Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Ryan Holiday
Portfolio, 2013
9 Book

Simply Brilliant
How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways
William C. Taylor
Portfolio, 2016
9 Book

China’s Disruptors
How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business
Edward Tse
Portfolio, 2015
9 Book

The Index Card
Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
Helaine Olen and Harold Pollack
Portfolio, 2016
9 Book

Superpower
Three Choices for America’s Role in the World
Ian Bremmer
Portfolio, 2015
9 Book

Humans Are Underrated
What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
Geoff Colvin
Portfolio, 2015
9 Book

The Automatic Customer
Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
John Warrillow
Portfolio, 2015
9 Book

The Decoded Company
Know Your Talent Better Than You Know Your Customers
Leerom Segal et al.
Portfolio, 2014
9 Book

The Obstacle Is the Way
The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday
Portfolio, 2014
9 Book

The Frackers
The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
Gregory Zuckerman
Portfolio, 2013
9 Book

Overdressed
The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Elizabeth L. Cline
Portfolio, 2012
9 Book

Currency Wars
The Making of the Next Global Crisis
James Rickards
Portfolio, 2011
9 Book

As One
Individual Action, Collective Power
Mehrdad Baghai et al.
Portfolio, 2011
9 Book

Brand Hijack
Marketing Without Marketing
Alex Wipperfürth
Portfolio, 2005
9 Book

The Starfish and the Spider
The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckström
Portfolio, 2006
9 Book

Wikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Portfolio, 2006
9 Book

Talent Is Overrated
What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
Geoff Colvin
Portfolio, 2008
9 Book

The Ultimate Sales Machine
Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
Chet Holmes
Portfolio, 2007
9 Book

Perfectly Legal
The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else
David Cay Johnston
Portfolio, 2003
9 Book

The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
Portfolio, 2013
8 Book

Ideaflow
The Only Business Metric That Matters
Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn
Portfolio, 2022
8 Book

The Scout Mindset
Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
Julia Galef
Portfolio, 2021
8 Book

Give Work
Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time
Leila Janah
Portfolio, 2017
8 Book

Regulatory Hacking
A Playbook for Startups
Evan Burfield and J.D. Harrison
Portfolio, 2018
8 Book

Edge
Turning Adversity into Advantage
Laura Huang
Portfolio, 2020
8 Book

Finding My Virginity
The New Autobiography
Richard Branson
Portfolio, 2017
8 Book

Profit First
Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
Mike Michalowicz
Portfolio, 2017
8 Book

Billion Dollar Lessons
What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui
Portfolio, 2009
8 Book

Super Thinking
The Big Book of Mental Models
Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
Portfolio, 2019
8 Book

Herding Tigers
Be the Leader That Creative People Need
Todd Henry
Portfolio, 2018
8 Book

Would You Do That to Your Mother?
The “Make Mom Proud” Standard for How to Treat Your Customers
Jeanne Bliss
Portfolio, 2018
8 Book

Why Are We Yelling?
The Art of Productive Disagreement
Buster Benson
Portfolio, 2019
8 Book

Sizing People Up
A Veteran FBI Agent’s User Manual for Behavior Prediction
Cameron Stauth and Robin Dreeke
Portfolio, 2020