Category Report
Which titles are driving leadership and workplace conversations this month, based on mentions across leading business podcasts.
Biggest mover: Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, Warren Buffett, John Collison #9, rising 190 places.
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson was the top newcomer at #3. In total 95 books had their debut mentions.
The Next Big Idea drove the most book chatter, with 20% of this months book mentions.
Across November’s conversations, three threads stand out: systemic risk, character-driven leadership, and anxiety about technology and social change. The renewed focus on The Big Short, driven by discussion of Michael Burry’s bets against AI names and the film’s 10-year anniversary, signals fresh concern about bubbles, downside protection, and how quickly consensus can be wrong—making it the clear outlier in this list. In parallel, Brené Brown’s and Muriel Wilkins’s titles, along with David Brooks’s and Jonathan Haidt’s work, point to a strong appetite for grounded, emotionally intelligent leadership that can withstand volatility, as well as for tools to navigate burnout and digital overload. Walter Isaacson’s books on Elon Musk and the ideals behind “We hold these truths…” underscore an enduring interest in how outsized individuals and foundational values shape innovation, governance, and the current technological and political moment.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
7
mentions
Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
Brené Brown
4
mentions
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
Walter Isaacson
3
mentions
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown
3
mentions
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
2
mentions
The Road to Character
David Brooks
2
mentions
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt
2
mentions
Leadership Unblocked: Break Through the Beliefs That Limit Your Potential
Muriel M. Wilkins
2
mentions
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, Warren Buffett, John Collison
2
mentions
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
2
mentions
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine to #1.
Significant outlier with 6.0x as many mentions as the average book.
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written to #3.
Highest ranking new entry to the chart.
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger to #9.
Up 190 places from #199 last month.
Down from #1 last month
The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports to #164.
No mentions after ranking #3 last month.
Outliers: The Story of Success to #172.
No mentions after ranking #5 last month.
The shows that surfaced the most book mentions this month.
Mentions recorded per 30-day window (past 8 months)
How many of the mentions were for the top 10 books.
The entrepreneurship podcasts included in this report are curated by MavenSignal to represent the voices founders and operators trust most for playbooks, launches, and long-term strategy.
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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