Business Leaders & CEOs
The stories behind the world's most influential business figures

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Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Angela Duckworth
The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner, 2016.
Al Ramadan, et al.
How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets. Harper, 2016.
Chip Conley
How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Jossey-Bass, 2007.
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Tim Ferriss
The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. Mariner Books, 2016.
Peter Thiel
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.
David Leavitt
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Admiral William H. McRaven
Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Kate Moore
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Simon Sinek
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009.
Jasmine Brown
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Olivia Campbell
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Barbara Minto
Logic in Writing and Thinking. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2020.
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Jia Jiang
How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible. Harmony, 2015.
Dale Carnegie
Simon & Schuster, 1981 (revised by Dorothy Carnegie, originally published in 1936).
Howard Schultz
How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time. Hachette Books, 1999
Alexis Coe
A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.
Isabel Allende
On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
Peter F. Drucker
The Effective Executive. HarperCollins, 2002.
Nikil Saval
A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
Yanis Varoufakis
My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018
Daniel H. Pink
The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Riverhead Books, 2011.
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Al Ramadan, et al.
How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets. Harper, 2016.
Yanis Varoufakis
My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018
Ruby Lal
The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.
John Lewis
A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
Fred Vogelstein
How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution. Sarah Crichton Books, 2013.
Jessica Bennett
An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave, 2016.
Angela Duckworth
The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner, 2016.
Chip Conley
How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Jossey-Bass, 2007.
Arnold Thackray
The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary. Basic Books, 2015.
A.J. Baime
Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Bantam, 2010.
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