Seven Books That Shaped Global Tech Stars

Source : businessinsider in || The Economic Times 9-5-2016

All the famous works that challenged and inspired some of the brightest and successful minds

Bill Gates

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth If a person claimed to have finished this book, Gates would ask for his or her resume.“I f somebody is so brash that they think they know everything, Knuth will help them understand that the world is deep and complicated.“

Tim Cook

Competing Against Time by George Stalk Jr.The book is about managing supply chains to get a competitive boost -something Apple has to worry about a lot. Industry gossip says that Cook gives copies to new hires.

Marissa Mayer

The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane The crux of Cabane's book is that anybody can be trained to be a great leader. Mayer put Cabane's lessons to work at Yahoo with leadership training sessions and even hosted the book's launch party at her San Francisco home.

 



Travis Kalanick

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand For a while, the Fountainhead cover was Kalanick's Twitter avatar. “It's less of a political statement. It's just one of my favourite books. I'm a fan of architecture,“ he said.

 

Steve Jobs

Be Here Now by Ram Dass The late Apple co-founder was deeply influenced by this 1971 book on meditation and metaphysics he read as a student at Reed College. “It was profound,“ Jobs once said.

“It transformed me and many of my friends.“

 

  Satya Nadella

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown When Nadella shook up the company's management in April 2014, he said he took lead ership lessons from this book by Brown, who was an ex-Mi crosoft employee.

“Evocative description i n t he book about a team of rowers working together at the highest level -he calls it `the swing o f t h e b o a t ,' “ Nadella wrote in a company email.

Mark Zuckerberg

Aeneid by Virgil Zuckerberg is a big fan of the classics. Virgil's Aeneid, the Latin epic poem about the Trojan War, was a favourite dating back to his high school days.

“There's a part of him that--it was present even when he wa s 2 0 -21this kind of imperial tendency. He was really into Greek odysseys and all that stuff,“ Napster founder and early Facebook president Sean Parker said of Zuckerberg in the New Yorker in 2010.









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