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14 books by mega-successful CEOs that will teach you how to run the world

Published by Business Insider on Tue, 03 Mar 2015


Business books are notorious for being loaded with MBA lard, trotting out "key takeaways" like "take risks," "build a great team," and "don't be afraid to fail."But the ones worth reading ditch the platitudes in favor of instructive anecdotes ' which is why they so often come from execs who have lived through it.'The Hard Thing About Hard Things'Whatis the hard thing about hard things' That they don't have a formula, says Ben Horowitz."Hard things are hard because there are no easy answers or recipes," he writes. "They are hard because your emotions are at odds with your logic. They are hard because you dont know the answer and you cannot ask for help without showing weakness."Horowitz, now one of the most sought-after investors in the game, used to be CEO ofsoftware management company Opsware before it was acquired by HP for$1.6 billion.Buy it here >>Disclosure: Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, is an investor in Business Insider.'Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business'In 2013, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey published his business manifesto, "Conscious Capitalism:Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business."It's as much about management as about philosophy.As in:This is what we know to be true: business is good because it creates value, it is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange, it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.Buy it here >>'The Promise of a Pencil'In "The Promise of a Pencil,"Adam Braun takes you on his journey from backpacker to consultant to founder of Pencils of Promise, the rapidly growing education nonprofit."I realized that I needed to live a life that reflected the themes of the stories I wanted to one day tell," Braun writes, "and when I veered off that path later on, it was time to make a change."He wants the reader to follow a similarly individual path."Your life should be a story you are excited to tell," he writes.Buy it here >>See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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