If you aspire to become a CEO one day, then it makes sense that you start to act like a CEO from today, so that you can grow into the position. That means that you have to read the books that CEOs read. Each year, Samsung Economic Research Institute (SERI) conducts research to identify a reading list for CEOs. Here are some of the books that can easily be purchased.
Reading List for CEOs
- Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think,
Vijay Mahajan
- Start-Up Nation, Dan Senor and Saul Singer
- Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, Youngme Moon
- How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In, Jim Collins
- Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy, Daniel Altman
- The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
- Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy, Harry Beckwith
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr
- The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Stop People from Dumping on You, David J. Pollay
- The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You, Mark Buchanan
- What Would Google Do?: Reverse-Engineering the Fastest Growing Company in the History of the World, Jeff Jarvis
- Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit, Philip Kotler
- China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society, John Naisbitt
- Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult DevelopmenSuperFreakonomics, Steven D. LevittSway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman
- A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition, Bill Bryson
- Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy, Jostein Gaarder
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don't, Jim Collins
- Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships, Ken Blanchard
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini
- Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq, Bob Woodward
- The Undercover Economist, by Tim Harford
- The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, by Thomas L. Friedman
- Broken Windows, Broken Business: How the Smallest Remedies Reap the Biggest Rewards, Michael Levine
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Daniel Pink
- Don't Eat The Marshmallow Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life, Joachim de Posada
- Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, Joel Osteen
- Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living, Elisabeth Kubler
- Ping: A Frog in Search of a New Pond, Stuart Avery Gold
Vijay Mahajan
Jim Collins
Harry Beckwith
Nicholas Carr
David J. Pollay
, John Naisbitt
by Ori Brafman
, Bill Bryson
, Jostein Gaarder
, Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
, Jim Collins
, Ken Blanchard
, Bob Woodward
, by Tim Harford
, by Thomas L. Friedman
, Michael Levine
, Malcolm Gladwell
, Daniel Pink
, Joachim de Posada
, Joel Osteen
, Elisabeth Kubler
, Stuart Avery GoldHow many of the books on the reading list for CEOs have you read? Book links are affiliate links.