Top 3 Book Recommendations from Business Leaders

With Christmas up ahead, we at Princedale thought we’d share some of the best book recommendations made to us by C Suite business leaders across our incredible network.

I often ask for three book that the interviewee would recommend to the world. Here is some inspiration for presents for yourselves, or for loved ones this Christmas.

Business & Leadership

• How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
• What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz 
• The Joy of Work by Bruce Daisley
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
• Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
• Wikinomics by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman

 

Psychology & Self-Help

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling, with Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling
• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
• The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

 

Memoir & Personal Development

• Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity* by Dr. Peter Attia, with Bill Gifford
• How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
• The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• The Workshop Book: How to Design and Lead Successful Workshops by Pamela Hamilton

 

Classic Literature

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (from *Different Seasons*)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Prophets by Khalil Gibran

 

Science Fiction & Fantasy

• Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
• The Three-Body Problem (trilogy) by Liu Cixin
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
• Songbird by Christy Lefteri

 

Contemporary Fiction

• Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
• The Guest by Emma Cline
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Bell by Iris Murdoch
• Confessions by Jaume Cabré
• Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

 

History & Biographies

• City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
• Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins

 

Philosophy & Spirituality

• The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

 

Science & Environment

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli

 

Additional Nonfiction Topics

• The Art of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

 

If you have a leadership appointment you need to make and would like to learn about what sets Princedale apart, drop me a note for an open discussion. 

Ru Jupp MD & Founder Princedale

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