Summer Reading for the Business-Minded
Recommending the books are 28 business professionals and professors, including Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, Philip Kotler, professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and Bob Pittman, CEO of America Online.
Each member of the group has recommended several titles, which you can view by clicking on an individual's name in the attached article. From these recommendations, Business Week compiled a list of 14 titles that were recommended frequently by the members of the group.
Included on the list is the timeless, The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder as well as the well-known best-seller, Business @ the Speed of Thought, by Bill Gates, and a host of equally intriguing and noteworthy titles.
Frequently Recommended Titles From The BusinessWeek Survey:
Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma
Recommendations [1] | Excerpt [2] | Interview [3]
Collins and Porras, Built to Last
Recommendations [4]
Downes and Mui, Unleashing the Killer App
Recommendations [5] | BusinessWeek review [6] | Excerpt [7]
Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21st Century
Recommendations [8] | BusinessWeek review [9]
Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Recommendations [10] | BusinessWeek review [11]
Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought
Recommendations [12] | BusinessWeek review [13]
Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy
Recommendations [14] | BusinessWeek review [15] | Excerpt [16]
Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine
Recommendations [17] | Excerpt [18]
Lewis, The New New Thing
Recommendations [19] | BusinessWeek review [20] | Excerpt [21]
Pine and Gilmore, The Experience Economy
Recommendations [22] | BusinessWeek review [23]
Shapiro and Varian, Information Rules
Recommendations [24] | Excerpt [25]
Strouse, Morgan
Recommendations [26] | BusinessWeek review [27]
Swisher, Aol.com
Recommendations [28] | BusinessWeek review [29] | Excerpt [30]
Tichy, The Leadership Engine
Recommendations [31] | BusinessWeek review [32]