Six breakthrough books that had business leaders hooked
Reading is
important to billionaire moguls like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk.
Over the years, the trio has sung the praises of several books that have
influenced them. Here are some top titles
Our Final Invention by James Barrat
Recommended by: Musk
Through profiles of tech visionaries,
industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, James Barrat’s Our Final
Invention explores the perils of the pursuit of AI. Until now, human
intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence
dwarfs ours? And will they allow us to?
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to
Build the Future by Peter Thiel
Recommended by: Musk
In Zero to One, entrepreneur and investor
Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. It
presents an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of
thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead
you to find value in unexpected places.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter
Isaacson
Recommended by: Musk
In this authoritative and engrossing
full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve
Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define the
country’s national character.
The Myth of the Strong Leader by Archie Brown
Recommended by: Gates
In this magisterial and wide-ranging survey
of political leadership over the past hundred years, renowned Oxford politics
professor Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that strong leaders —
meaning those who dominate their colleagues and the policy-making process — are
the most successful and admirable.
How Asia Works by Joe Studwell
Recommended by: Gates
In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills
extensive research into the economics of nine countries — Japan, South Korea,
Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China —
into an accessible, readable narrative that debunks Western misconceptions,
shows what really happened in Asia and why.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary
Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I Porras
Recommended by: Bezos
Drawing upon a six-year research project at
the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Jim Collins and Jerry
Porras took 18 long-lasting companies — they have an average age of nearly 100
years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of 15 since
1926 — and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top
competitors. They examined the companies from their beginnings to the present
day — as start-ups, midsize companies, and large corporations.
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