6 Recommended Reads by Top Leaders

Check out these titles based on recommendations from the world’s top tech leaders…

Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfill Your Potential
Recommended by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

Written by renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, Mindset is the culmination of decades of research on achievement and success and the power of mindset and potential.

Competing Against Time: How Time-Based Competition is Reshaping Global Markets
Recommended by Tim Cook, CEO of Apple

With detailed real-world examples, this book shows how organizations have put time-based strategies in place to achieve better results and create a competitive advantage.

The Overstory
Recommended by Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft

In his most recent blog, Bill Gates recommended the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. While not a typical business book, this novel is a story about trees that addresses the destruction of forests.

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Recommended by Jack Dorsey, CEO and Founder of Square and Twitter

In a series of riveting stories, Gawande showcases what checklists can do, what they can’t and how they can bring striking improvements in a variety of fields.

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Recommended by Warren Buffet, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

Smartest Guys in the Room takes readers into Enron’s past, detailing the rise to the top of the business world and its disastrous demise.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Recommended by Marilyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin

By best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell, Blink is a book about thinking without thinking and how choices that seem to be made in the blink of an eye aren’t as simple as they seem.