As a reader, it’s always interesting to know what everyone else is reading, and this includes notable leaders and personalities of the world. Below are 50 books that inspire our planet’s top business leaders:
1. Marissa Meyer, CEO of Yahoo
The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
2. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk
Peak by Chip Conley
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
3. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, CEO and co-founder of Square
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh
4. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
5. Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, founder and CEO of SpaceX
Structures by J.E. Gordon
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
Merchants of Doubt by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov
6. Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Creation by Steve Grand
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
Lean Thinking by James Womack and Daniel Jones
Memos from the Chairman by Alan Greenberg
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt, Jeff Cox and David Whitford
Data-Driven Marketing by Mark Jeffery
7. Mark Zuckerberg
Portfolios of the Poor by Daryl CollinsCreativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson
8. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, co-founder of Palantir
The American Challenge by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
The Great Illusion by Norman Angell
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard, Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer
9. Bill Gates, c0-founder and CEO of Microsoft
Business Adventures by John Brooks
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
String Theory by David Foster Wallace
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
The Myth of the Strong Leader by Archie Brown
The Grid by Gretchen Bakke
A Full Life by Jimmy Carter
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
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