Category Report

Top 10 Books from Entrepreneurship Podcasts - Dec 2025

Which books are shaping founder thinking this month, as mentioned across top entrepreneurship podcasts.

Category: Entrepreneurship
Updated: 2026-01-01
Period: Monthly
Featured Insights

Biggest mover: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch #3, rising 147 places.

Entrepreneurs on Fire drove the most book chatter, with 14% of this months book mentions.

Impacts and Insights for Entrepreneurs

Across shows this month, conversation clusters around how leaders think, behave, and build resilient organizations in a fast-changing environment. Classic personal-effectiveness staples like The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Atomic Habits are being used to anchor discussions about systems, discipline, and goal-setting, especially as founders and operators look ahead to 2026. Strategy and durability are a second throughline: The Innovator’s Dilemma, 7 Powers, and High Output Management surface in debates about AI disruption, moats, and scalable management practices. Several titles, including The Beginning of Infinity and 1929, signal appetite for deeper historical and philosophical context on technological and market cycles. Indra Nooyi’s My Life in Full and The Motive bring in a more human lens, emphasizing the leader’s responsibility for culture, talent, and holistic support, not just performance. The sharp rise of Covey’s 7 Habits suggests renewed interest in foundational playbooks amid heightened uncertainty.

Top 10 Books

Top Podcasts Driving Mentions

The shows that surfaced the most book mentions this month.

Signal Momentum

Mentions recorded per 30-day window (past 8 months)

Coverage Mix

How many of the mentions were for the top 10 books.

Signal Summary

Podcasts Monitored
17
Episodes Searched
99
Unique Books
127
Total Mentions
138

Methodology

The podcasts included in this report are curated by MavenSignal to represent the trusted voices in this category.

We ingest public RSS feeds, analyze each episode, extract book mentions with AI, and validate with humans. The resulting data is normalized and deduplicated, building the canonical signal for the MavenSignal platform. Every insight and ranking is drawn from that verified layer.

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