Start-Up Nation

by Dan Senor and Saul Singer

Senor and Singer try to explain how Israel, a small country with few resources and enemies on every border, ended up with more startups per person than almost anywhere. A lot of their answer is the army. Elite units hand young people real responsibility early, failure carries no shame afterward, and questioning your boss is treated as normal. It leans a little boosterish in places, but the core argument is genuinely convincing.