Reading List
Jeff Bezos
Founder, Amazon; Founder, Blue Origin · Amazon
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore and grew it into one of the most valuable companies on earth, later founding the aerospace venture Blue Origin. Reading has been central to how he thinks and leads. He built Amazon’s culture partly around books, having executives study business classics, and has often named the novels and management texts that shaped his approach to long-term thinking, customer obsession, and invention. His recommendations carry unusual weight in business and technology circles.
The Effective Executive
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
by Peter F. Drucker · 2006 · Business
Recommended via Book List
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
by Jim Collins · 2001 · Business
Recommended via Book List, March 2017
Lean Thinking
Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones · 2003 · Business
Recommended via Book List, March 2017
The Goal
A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt · 1984 · Nonfiction
Recommended via Book List, March 2017
The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2010 · Economics
Recommended via Book List, March 2017
Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras · 2004 · Business
Recommended via Book List, March 2017
The Innovator’s Dilemma
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
by Clayton M. Christensen · 2016 · Business
Recommended via Book List, March 2017
