Best Business Books for CEOs

If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’re a hyper aggressive, type A, super star executive, always thirsty for knowledge, but often unable to actually sit still to read….like most of our best CEOs. I’ve got good news for you. Summer is coming, and you’ve earned some time on the beach.

You can put your feet in the sand, step away from the iPhone, sip a fruity drink, and actually enjoy yourself…while still expanding your mind with interesting topics to make you a better person and a better executive. You can come back tanned, rested, and better!

Grab an eBook reader and take a spin through this list of great executive book recommendations from some of BVP’s CEO elite! Think of some great ones we missed? Please add them to the comments below and share with others!

The Art of War (SUN TZU)

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras)

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time (Susan Scott)

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't (Jim Collins)

Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale : The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale (Rick Page)

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Clayton M. Christensen)

The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth (Michael E. Raynor & Clayton M. Christensen)

Inside the Tornado: Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets (Geoffrey A. Moore)

Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com (Aaron Ross & Marylou Tyler)

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience (Carmine Gallo)

Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter (Seth Godin)

Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth)

Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle (Matthew Symonds & Larry Ellison)

The SPEED of Trust (Stephen M.R. Covey)

SPIN Selling (Neil Rackham)

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Chip Heath & Dan Heath)

GENERAL INTEREST:

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (Nathaniel C. Fick)

The Field (Lynne McTaggart)

A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One (George R.R. Martin)

Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet (Joseph Menn)

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