Leadership and Business Principles Curriculum
This curriculum is designed for professionals that would like to develop and hone their skills in business and leadership. There are so many resources out there, this list is meant to narrow the focus into the highest yield resources available on the most utilized topics.
Leadership
Learn from the Best: Exemplary Leaders and Stories
Mayo Clinic
Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic (Link)
Lincoln, Johnson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt
Leadership in Turbulent Times (Link)
Jocko
Jocko Leadership and Discipline Podcast (link)
Leadership Basics
Book: Extreme Ownership (Link)
Putting Leadership into Action, Jocko Interview (Link)
Book: The Dichotomy of Leadership (Link)
Book: Leadership Strategies and Tactics (Link)
Book: How to Win Friends and Influence People (Link)
Book: Hal Moore LTG on Leadership: Winning when outgunned and outmanned (Link)
Jocko Episode 192, Leadership with Sean Parnell (Link)
Communication Strategies For Leaders
Executive presence
Self-compassion will make you a better leader (Link)
Persuasive public speaking
Difficult conversations
Superhuman feedback (link)
Negotiation
Book: Never split the difference (link)
Healthcare Leadership
Systematic Thinking
Lessons We Can Learn from Aviation Checklists (link)
Patient Experience
If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 1/2 Things You Would Do Differently (Link)
Operational Strategy
Accounting and Finance
Articles:
How to Calculate a Return on Investment (ROI) (link)
Central Banking Explained (link)
Time Value of Money (link)
How to read a financial report (link)
Analyzing Financial Statements (link)
Opportunity Costs (link)
Enterprise Value & Market Value (link)
Employee Equity: Vesting (link)
What a CEO Does (link)
Margins (link)
Financing Options for Startups (link)
EBITDA (link)
Cap Tables (link)
Burn Rate (link)
The Board of Directors, Board Meetings (link)
Revenue Models (link)
Convertible Debt (link)
Valuation (link)
Selling Your Company (link)
Strategic planning and execution
Article: Harvard Business Review: Strategy to Execution (Link)
Article: Harvard Business Review: Strategy Execution (Link)
Strategy map key example: Balanced Scorecard (link)
SWOT analysis templates (link)
Article: SWOT analysis explanation (link)
Strategic planning and thinking ahead with considering strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT)
Crisis management
Measuring and reporting impact
Conflict resolution and Communication
Radical Candor Summary (link)
Organizational change
10 Principles of leading change (link)
Overcoming barriers
Antifragile teams: A how to (link)
Project management
Resource management and Teams (Link)
Lean Management
Book: The Lean Startup, Eric Ries (link)
Quality
Book: Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard (link)
Teams
Incentivising People
Article: Behavioral economics to design incentives (link)
Effective mentoring
6 Things Every Mentor Should Do (Link)
Business Principles
Economics
Video: How the Economic Machine Works, Ray Dalio (link)
Innovation
Book: Competing Against Luck, Clay Christensen (link)
Marketing
Startups
Books
How to Start a Startup, Sam Altman (link)
Elements of Enduring Companies, Sequoia Capital (link)
Writing a Business Plan, [Sequoia Capital](Sequoia Capital) (link)
Startup Advice, Sam Altman (link)
Do Things That Don’t Scale, Paul Graham (link)
How to Raise Money, Paul Graham (link)
Black Swan Farming, Paul Graham (link)
Schlep Blindness, Paul Graham (link)
Founder Library (link)
Book: Founders at Work, Jessica Livingston (link)