It was intriguing to find out about the personal MBA during my first year as a consultant. Trying to decide what path would be right for me in graduate school, I discovered that there were books to explain most business school concepts. Now, I’m a firm believer that books are an inexpensive way to learn.
If we had an e-library, here’s what you’d find on our shelves as recommended reading. Coupled with the 99 books in the pMBA program, there’s enough material in here to be buried up to your eyeballs in useful information and hopefully you’ll learn something you can apply, too.
25 Books recommended by influential people
1. The Remains of the Day (recommended by Jeff Bezos)
2. The Boys in the Boat
3. The End of Power (recommended by Mark Zuckerberg)
4. Innovator’s Dilemma (recommended by Steve Jobs)
5. Competing Against Time (recommended by Larry Ellison)
6. The Charisma Myth (recommended by Marissa Mayer)
7. Search Inside Yourself (recommended by Tony Hsieh (Zappos)
8. The Intelligent Investor (recommended by Warren Buffet)
9. Business Adventures (recommended by Bill Gates)
10. The Art of Happiness
11. The Prince
12. The Art of War (recommended by Marc Benioff)
13. Lean In
14. A Short Guide to a Happy Life
15. How Will You Measure Your Life (recommended by Michael Bloomberg)
16. The Effective Executive (recommended by Jeff Bezos)
17. The Ascent of Money
18. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
19. The Tipping Point
20. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (recommended by Larry Page)
21. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
22. The Catcher in the Rye (recommended by Bill Gates)
23. The World is Flat
24. Atlas Shrugged
25. Napoleon (recommended by Larry Ellison)
Business Technologist
Books recommended by McKinsey to make you a better business-technologist.
26. The Reckoning – David Halberstam
27. The Visual Display of Quanitative Information
28. Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
29. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
30. Why the Allies Won
31. Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
32. Show Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
33. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System