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
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Books
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| Steve Jobs | Apple | King 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 Dorsey | Square | The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. |
| Elon Musk | Inventor&Entrepreneur | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Glaxay |
| Time Cook | Apple | Competing Against Time by George Stalk |
| Larry Ellison | Oracle | Napoleon by Vincent Cronin |
| Michael Bloomberg | Mayor Newyork City | The Honourable Schoolboy by Le Carre |
| Mark Zuckerberg | The Aeneid by Virgil | |
| Bill Gates | Microsoft | The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker,The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger |
| Jeff Bezos | Amazon | Built 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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