BookwieldPrompts that aim handpicked books at a problem you actually have, ready for your AI of choice.
you're running four or five projects at once, nothing is fully dropped, but everything moves in stops and starts and you only find out what's behind when someone asks you about it.
Getting Things Done · David Allen · Work the System · Sam Carpenter
your pitch is accurate but forgettable: people nod, then can't repeat what you do.
Contagious · Jonah Berger · Building a StoryBrand · Donald Miller
you have some debt, some savings and an employer match on the table, and you can't decide whether every spare dollar goes to the debt or into investments.
The Total Money Makeover · Dave Ramsey · I Will Teach You to Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
you have savings sitting in cash, everyone recommends something different, and you keep putting off doing anything.
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing · John C. Bogle · The Simple Path to Wealth · JL Collins
the person across the table raises their voice or makes threats whenever you question them, you still need a deal, and you dread every call.
Getting Past No · William Ury · Difficult Conversations · Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen
you've analysed a big personal decision for months, asked everyone, keep changing your mind, and the deadline is close.
Decisive · Chip Heath & Dan Heath · The Paradox of Choice · Barry Schwartz
you've saved thousands of notes and highlights, you can't find or use any of them, and you've rebuilt your folders more than once.
Building a Second Brain · Tiago Forte · How to Take Smart Notes · Sönke Ahrens
support keeps fielding "where is X" questions about features that already exist, and the team thinks those features are obvious.
The Design of Everyday Things · Don Norman · Don't Make Me Think, Revisited · Steve Krug
the team wants to spend months building something, the evidence is a few requests and an executive who likes it, and nobody has checked whether people would use it.
Working Backwards · Colin Bryar & Bill Carr · Sprint · Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz
a large, tempting opportunity would take the company somewhere new, and the leadership team is split on whether it's growth or a detour.
Playing to Win · A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin · Built to Last · Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras
something in your market has changed, the numbers are down, and the people around you disagree about whether it's temporary or structural.
Only the Paranoid Survive · Andrew S. Grove · Antifragile · Nassim Nicholas Taleb
you have one written offer with a deadline and you'd rather work somewhere else that hasn't decided yet.
Getting to Yes · Fisher, Ury & Patton · Influence · Robert B. Cialdini
you save diligently, the balance is solid, and you keep postponing things you care about because saving more always feels safer.
Die With Zero · Bill Perkins · Your Money or Your Life · Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
you and your partner keep having the same argument about saving versus spending, and every money conversation turns into it.
The Psychology of Money · Morgan Housel · I Will Teach You to Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
you've been reworking the same piece for months or years, nobody has seen it, and you've started to dread opening the file.
Bird by Bird · Anne Lamott · Show Your Work! · Austin Kleon
you still want to make things, but for months every time you sit down it feels pointless and heavy, and you close the file.
The War of Art · Steven Pressfield · Big Magic · Elizabeth Gilbert
each request seemed small when you agreed to it, and now your own priorities haven't moved in months.
Essentialism · Greg McKeown · The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People · Stephen R. Covey
your to-do list grows faster than you clear it, you've tried every way of prioritizing, and you end each week feeling behind.
Four Thousand Weeks · Oliver Burkeman · Eat That Frog! · Brian Tracy
you pick up your phone without deciding to, timers and grayscale haven't stuck, and your evenings disappear.
Digital Minimalism · Cal Newport · Indistractable · Nir Eyal with Julie Li
you're designing or replacing a bonus plan, the last one got gamed, and you need something that rewards the right work.
Freakonomics · Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner · Drive · Daniel H. Pink
you were the best individual contributor, people bring you every problem, you usually know the answer, and you've become the bottleneck.
The Coaching Habit · Michael Bungay Stanier · What Got You Here Won't Get You There · Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter
meetings are polite, deadlines slip, nobody calls it out in the room, and people come to you privately to complain about each other.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team · Patrick Lencioni · Extreme Ownership · Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
you've just been promoted over people who were your peers, feedback feels awkward, and one of them isn't taking it well.
The One Minute Manager · Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson · Crucial Conversations · Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler
a cheaper, simpler competitor is winning your smaller accounts, and the instinct in the room is to move upmarket and add features.
The Innovator's Dilemma · Clayton M. Christensen · Blue Ocean Strategy · W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
the business is working, someone asks what stops a bigger player copying you, and you don't have a good answer.
7 Powers · Hamilton Helmer · Competitive Strategy · Michael E. Porter
the first customers loved it, the next kind of customer keeps stalling, growth has gone flat, and the team wants to add features for everyone.
Crossing the Chasm · Geoffrey A. Moore · Zero to One · Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
requests arrive from sales, support, leadership and customers faster than you can build, the backlog only grows, and more time goes on arguing about order than on shipping.
Continuous Discovery Habits · Teresa Torres · Shape Up · Ryan Singer
launch is close, competitors' prices are all over the place, and the number you've picked is a gut feel nobody can defend.
Monetizing Innovation · Madhavan Ramanujam & Georg Tacke · Obviously Awesome · April Dunford
signups look fine but most new users open the product once or twice and disappear, and you want to know what's missing before you build another feature.
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products · Nir Eyal with Ryan Hoover · The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick
you used to train regularly, a busy stretch broke the routine months ago, and every restart since has died within a couple of weeks.
The Power of Habit · Charles Duhigg · Can't Hurt Me · David Goggins
your income just went up, and last time it did, your spending rose to match within a year and you ended up no better off.
The Psychology of Money · Morgan Housel · The Millionaire Next Door · Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
the team has more "priorities" than people, everything is behind, and you need to choose what to stop rather than rank everything again.
Good to Great · Jim Collins · Steve Jobs · Walter Isaacson
you launched to people who said they were interested, almost none of them signed up or stayed, and you can't tell whether they don't need it or you haven't convinced them.
The Lean Startup · Eric Ries · Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion · Robert B. Cialdini
you keep starting a creative project in bursts, manage a couple of good weeks, then stop for months, and you want a daily practice that holds up through bad weeks.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft · Stephen King · The Artist's Way · Julia Cameron
the same two people talk first in every ideas session, everyone else nods along, and the meeting ends with variations on what was said in the first five minutes.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking · Susan Cain · Thinking, Fast and Slow · Daniel Kahneman
your role has outgrown your title and pay, review season is coming, and you want to ask without it sounding like a threat.
Getting More · Stuart Diamond · Never Split the Difference · Chris Voss
your best customers are using the product for something other than what you built it for, and you need to understand why before planning the next year.
Competing Against Luck · Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon & David S. Duncan · The Mom Test · Rob Fitzpatrick
someone's output has dipped and your instinct is to get more involved, but you're not sure if more involvement is the fix or the problem.
High Output Management · Andrew Grove · Multipliers · Liz Wiseman
your team is proud of numbers you set, the numbers are green, and the outcome they were meant to drive is getting worse.
Measure What Matters · John Doerr · First, Break All the Rules · Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
the roadmap is full of shipped work but nobody can say which outcome any of it was supposed to move.
Inspired · Marty Cagan · Escaping the Build Trap · Melissa Perri
a project has stalled, you know exactly what the first step is, and you still haven't opened the file.
Getting Things Done · David Allen · Atomic Habits · James Clear
a contract renewal is coming up and the account is already signaling they want a lower price.
Never Split the Difference · Chris Voss · Getting to Yes · Fisher, Ury & Patton
a project has eaten real money and months, the results are ambiguous, and your team has split into 'it's early' and 'stop now.'
Thinking in Bets · Annie Duke · The Dip · Seth Godin
every meeting seems reasonable on its own, the real work happens after 8pm or not at all, and declining feels like letting people down.
Deep Work · Cal Newport · Four Thousand Weeks · Oliver Burkeman
you've been handed a strategy deck full of targets and aspirations and can't work out what anyone is supposed to do differently on Monday.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy · Richard Rumelt · Playing to Win · A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin
three brainstorms in a row have produced variations on the same idea and you need directions that don't all come from the same place.
Where Good Ideas Come From · Steven Johnson · Steal Like an Artist · Austin Kleon
readers call your work 'solid,' nobody can say what's wrong, and you keep polishing sentences instead of finding the real problem.
Creativity, Inc. · Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace · The Creative Habit · Twyla Tharp
one long-tenured person is the only one who understands the critical systems, every incident and review lands on them, and the rest of the team waits.
The Phoenix Project · Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford · Turn the Ship Around! · L. David Marquet
a direct report has gone quiet, isn't volunteering the way they used to, and you're not sure if it's a skill problem, a motivation problem, or something you're missing.
Radical Candor · Kim Scott · High Output Management · Andrew Grove