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24 alternatives to Blockbusters: Hit-Making and Risk-Taking

An argument for why big bets are the surest way to success

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blockbusters: Hit-Making and Risk-Taking launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business ▲58
What wins in entertainment and why.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
How to Castrate a Bull▲72
Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Win at Losing▲62
How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
The Success Equation▲75
My favorite book on investing and decision making.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes▲60
From the life-changing science of behavioral economics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
The Art of Strategy▲68
A game theorist's guide to success in business and life
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Winning Isn't Normal▲53
Meditations on the art of ass-kicking
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
Rise of the Revenue Marketer▲66
A guide for connection marketing to business
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Investors and Mana▲68
Curated and aggregated investor letters from Buffet and team
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
10
Guerilla Marketing▲77
Easy and inexpensive strategies for making big profits
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Innovator's Dilemma▲202
The seminal business book
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Fooled By Randomness ▲105
The hidden role of chance in life and markets
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
Little Bets▲89
How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Margin of Safety▲55
Risk-averse value investing strategies
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Hacking Growth▲72
The modern marketing mindset to create fast growing
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Streaming, Sharing, Stealing▲55
Big Data and the Future of Entertainment
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Screw the Competition▲78
Strategies to crush your competitors
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
The Thank You Economy▲89
How companies big and small can scale
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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High-Profit Prospecting▲63
Strategies to find the best leads and drive sales results
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
Predictably Irrational▲96
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think▲74
The blueprint of an abundant future
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned▲61
The myth of the objective
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Escape the Expected▲55
The secret psychology of selling to skeptical consumers
2015 · escapetheexpected.com · its alternatives →
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Failure is Never Final▲58
How to bounce back BIG from any defeat
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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