Business Biography Reading Path

Learn from the lives and careers of the world's most remarkable business leaders. These stories inspire, instruct, and illuminate.

Outcome: Gain wisdom from the journeys of iconic business leaders.

Books in this path (10)

1

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight, 2018

• Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
• Life is growth. You grow or you die.

2

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson, 2015

• Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies,music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing

3

The Everything Store

Brad Stone, 2014

• The definitive story of the largest and most influential company in the world and the man whose drive and determination changed business forever

4

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger, 2019

• One of the most important qualities of a good leader is optimism, a pragmatic enthusiasm for what can be achieved. Even in the face of difficult choices and less than ideal outcomes, an optimistic leader does not yield to pessimism.
• True authority and true leadership come from knowing who you are and not pretending to be anything else.

5

Hit Refresh

Satya Nadella, 2018

• But as management guru Peter Drucker once said, Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
• Our industry does not respect tradition. What it respects is innovation.

6

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson, 2023

• The family adopted a motto: Live dangerously-carefully.
• This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks.

7

Creativity Inc

Ed Catmull, 2014

• is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights - a manual for anyone who strives for originality, with behind-the-scenes examples from Pixar itself

8

Grinding It Out

Ray Kroc, 2012

• Few entrepreneurs can claim to have actually changed the way we live, but Ray Kroc is one of them
• His revolutions in food service automation, franchising, shared national training and advertising have earned him a place beside the men who founded not merely businesses but entire new industries

9

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz, 2014

• While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one
• Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he's gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies

10

Alibaba

Duncan Clark, 2016

• Clark tells Alibaba's tale in the context of China's momentous economic and social changes, illuminating an unlikely corporate titan as never before

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