The scene: Two college students, running to class, checking their phones, and finding emails from Fortune 500 CEOs.
This is what happens when a desire to learn collides with the generosity of America's top
business leaders. Two college students, Grant Hensel and Julia Wittrock, who have now recently
graduated from Wheaton College, wanted answers to one question: What business books should aspiring business leaders be reading? They wrote letters to each Fortune 500 CEO asking for their book recommendations, and were stunned to hear from more than 150 CEOs.
Below are the top 52 books recommended by today's leading business minds (in order of number of recommendations):
1. Good to Great by Jim Collins
2. Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
3. Great by Choice by Jim Collins
4. The Outsiders by William Thorndike
5. Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter
6. Built to Last by Jim Collins
7. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
8. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
9. The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey
10. The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
11. The Bible by Multiple
12. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
13. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
14. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
15. In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters
16. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
17. The Leadership Pipeline by Ram Charan
18. Management by Peter Drucker
19. Leadership Is an Art by Max DePree
20. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis Gerstner
21. Leadership by John Wooden
22. Our Iceberg Is Melting by John Kotter
23. Leading Change by John Kotter
24. The Five Temptations of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni
25. True North by Bill George
26. American Icon by Bryce Hoffman
27. Lincoln on Leadership by Donald Phillips
28. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
29. StrengthsFinder by Tom Rath
30. Titan by Ron Chernow
31. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury
32. Global Tilt by Ram Charan
33. Abundance by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
34. Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
35. The Strategist CEO by Michel Robert
36. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
37. The Will to Manage by Marvin Bower
38. Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
39. Business Adventures by John Brooks
40. How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
41. Winning by Jack Welch
42. The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
43. The Power of Many by Margaret C. Whitman
44. Taking People With You by David Novak
45. Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
46. Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
47. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
48. Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough
49. Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove
50. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
51. Give and Take by Adam Grant
52. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley
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