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Josh Kaufman

Josh Kaufman is a bestselling author of books on business, entrepreneurship, skill acquisition, applied psychology, and practical wisdom. He has authored two international bestsellers — The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business and The First 20 Hours — with over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide. Amazon.com has ranked him the #1 bestselling author in Business & Money.
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Josh Kaufman's The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business is an international bestseller that sets out to distill the core knowledge of entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, negotiation, operations, productivity, and systems design into one comprehensive, buzzword-free volume — making the case that a costly business school degree is not a prerequisite for business mastery. Published by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House, the book has drawn praise from celebrated figures including Seth Godin, David Allen, and Derek Sivers, and a Hindi-language edition makes its mental-model-driven framework accessible to a broader global readership.

Reviewed Apr 9, 2026

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