Two days ago I asked a question on LinkedIN - “As part of a chief executive session I’m planning I’m in the search for books that describes the intersection between network economy, complexity, design, innovation, leadership, Enterprise2.0, web2.0 a. o.
To cut it short - what books should be on the shelf of the CEO if he/she want to learn about running a business in the 21. Century?”
After a few hours I got a tremendous response and a list of very interesting books - on the list is:
“The World is Flat”
The weblog of Jonathan Schwartz
“Innovation to the Core”
“Innovation and Entrepreneurship”
“Making it happen”
“Good to Great”
“Blue Ocean Strategy”
“Leading the Revolution”
“The Art of Innovation”
“The Future of Management”
“A Whole New Mind”
“Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity And the New Science of Ideas”
“The Breakthrough Company”
“Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder”
“Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google”
“Media Rules!: Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience”
“The Innovator’s Dilemma”
“The Innovator’s Solution”
“Mavericks at Work”
“Wikinomics”
“The Corporate Fool”
“The Goal”
“http://www.caro.cc/download/communitycommercenters.pdf”
Thank you very much to:
Frank Alex
Niti Bhan
Hannes Helander
Richard Auld
Kevin Paylow
Charles Caro
Jens Galatius
Peter Bysshe
Mike Slevin
Luiza Nadolska
Ionel Roiban
Tim Merrick
Peter Flentov
Sabina Podjed
James Finister
Alexander Osterwalder
It there a book missing?
9 comments so far
I’d add to the list “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More” by Chris Anderson.
Thank you Rebecca - I missed that book on the list as well 
What about “Widsom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki?
Any other suggestions?
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath of Stanford is another book that should be on the list.
I’m surprised no one volunteered - F’d Companies -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0743228626/reviews/ref%3Dnosim/fc-20/
It’s a hilarious read and sadly it’s all true, just the pitfalls of a trend that seems to be peeking its ugly head back up again (VC firms going hog wild + funding start-ups with no actual business plan that anywhere near involves them pulling in a profit).
Well that and Join the Conversation by Joseph Jaffe (or even the recently released for free ebook - The Cult of Mac) - both books paint a fairly good picture of just how important consumer evangelism/interaction is.
… yes: The Opposable Mind By Roger Martin.
Unfortunately the poll on LinkedIn closed pretty fast ;-(
John Thackara’s _In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World_
MIT, 2005
“Iacocca: An Autobiography” by Lee Iacocca (Author), William Novak (Author)
All best,
Luiza
Dear all
Thank you SO much for the suggestions so far - VERY good list
If you haven’t commented yet, please do so and help me create the Christmas Wish list for every CEO
All the best
Hans Henrik