Friday, July 5, 2013

The books that Inspired CEOs


I came across this list at Business Insider website.Have heard of some of the books mentioned below. Its quite interesting that people get inspired by fictional works and make it work in real world. I noticed that most of these CEOs took their hobbies and interest into business and succeeded in it. I always believe in the idea of making hobbies and interest as a profession.


CEO Name
Company
Books
Steve JobsAppleKing Lear,Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma, Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Chogyam Trungpa's Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, and Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Jack DorseySquareThe Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande.
Elon MuskInventor&EntrepreneurThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Glaxay
Time CookAppleCompeting Against Time by George Stalk
Larry EllisonOracleNapoleon by Vincent Cronin
Michael BloombergMayor Newyork CityThe Honourable Schoolboy by Le Carre
Mark ZuckerbergFacebookThe Aeneid by Virgil
Bill GatesMicrosoftThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker,The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Jeff BezosAmazonBuilt to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

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