Founders Ramp
All of the approach

Books

Books that are fundamental

The books that sit under how we work.

Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

Extreme Ownership

Credit the team when it works. Own the miss as the leader. Success is we. Failure is I.

Anthony Iannarino

Eat Their Lunch

How you take a deal that already has a vendor, without trashing them in the room.

Chris Voss with Tahl Raz

Never Split the Difference

Stay curious. Get them talking. Do not argue them into a yes.

Mark Hunter

High-Profit Prospecting

The conversations only count if they are with people who can buy.

Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson

The Challenger Sale

Teach them something about their own problem. Then the product has a place.

Jason Jordan & Michelle Vazzana

Cracking the Sales Management Code

You inspect the work, not the story the seller tells about the work.

Anthony Parinello

Selling to the Very Important Top Officer

Get to the person who owns the number. Everyone else is a tour.

Jamal Reimer

Mega Deal Secrets

How a late, multi-threaded deal actually gets papered.

Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson

The One Minute Manager

Goals on one page. Praise and correct the behavior, soon, specifically.

Stephen Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Circles of influence and control. Work where you can act.

Dick Dunkel & Jack Napoli, PTC, ~1996

MEDDIC / MEDDPICC

The map for a late enterprise deal. Not how you qualify a founder whose competitor is building it themselves.

Justin Weller

Unreleased title

A book in the works on the job nobody trains: the founder or first manager who owns every deal.