I enjoy reading books about business, leadership, religion, history, biographies and Literature. This list contains my favorite books. I do not know what I absorbed from any one book. I just know these books changed me in some way.
Leadership:
Taking Chances (1986) Dale Dauten … Putting passion and creativity to work.
Leaders (1985) Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus… The four Keys for Effective leadership.
The Art of Leader (1990) William Cohen… Qualities of an effective leader.
Be All Your Can Be (1987) John Maxwell
Do It -&- Life 101 – John Rogers and Peter Williams
The Leader (1981) Michael Maccoby… A new face for American management.
Character (1988) Gail Sheely… America’s search for leadership.
The Projection Principle (1988) Dr. George Weinbery and Diane Rowe
The Tao of Leadership (1997) John Heider
The Situational Leader (1984) Dr. Paul Hersey… the other 59 minutes.
The Executive Odyssey (1989) Frederick Harman… Secrets for a career without limits.
Reminiscences of the Civil War … Gen. John Brown Gordon… a true lessen on leadership.
Americanism:
The Death of Common Sense (1994) Phillip Howard… How law is suffocating America
The Power Game (1988) Hedrick Smith
Atlas Shrugged (1957) Ayn Rand… beware of centralized government planning
Dixie After the War (1906) Mary Lockett Avary and General Clement A. Evans
Business:
Management: Tasks-Responsibilities-Practices… Peter F. Drucker
The Additive Organization, (1988) Ann Wilson Schaef and Diane Fassel
On a Clear Day You can General Motors (1979) John Z. Delorean By Patrick Wright
The Intuitive Manager (1986) Roy Rowan… The subconscious elements of success.
The Renewal Factor, Robert H. Waterman Jr. … How the best get and keep the competitive edge.
A Better Idea – Redefining the Way Americans Work (1991) Donald E. Peterson (Ford CEO)
The Rise of the Expert Company (1988) Edward Feigenbaum, Pamela McCorduck, H. Penny Nii…
Mind of a Manager/ Soul of a Leader (1990) Craig R. Hickman
Innovation-The Attackers Advantage – Richard Foster (S-curve analysis)
The Ultimate Entrepreneur Glenn Rifkin and George Harran… the story of Ken Olsen and DEC.
My Years With General Motors Alfred P. Sloan, Jr…. the seeds of its successs and, now we see, the seeds of its failure.
History:
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) Paul Kennedy… Economic change and military power 1500 to 2000.
A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) Bill Bryson
The Education of Henry Adams (1918) Henry Adams
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1905) Henry Adams
President Kennedy (1993) Richard Reeves… Profile in Power.
John Adams (2001) David McCullough
Lincoln – David Herbert Donald
George Washington a Life – Willard Sterne Randall
American Sphinx-The Character of Thomas Jefferson – Joseph J. Ellis
Andrew Jackson (2005) H. W. Brands
Theodore Roosevelt – A Life Nathan Miller
When the Cheering Stopped (1964) Gene Smith… Life of Woodrow Wilson
F.D.R. (1985) Ted Morgan
Polk – The man who transformed the Presidency and America – Walter R. Borneman
John Quincy Adams – A public Life- a Private Life (1997) Paul C. Nagel
Jefferson Davis- American (2000) William Cooper Jr.
The last Founding Father- James Monroe (2009) Harlow Giles Unger
Wilkie (1952) Joseph Barnes… The life of Wendell Wilkie
The Greek Way (1930) – The Roman Way (1932) Edith Hamilton
Napoleon Bonaparte (1997) Alan Schom
Cicero … Anthony Everitt
Millionaire (1999) Janet Gleeson… The Mississippi bubble and John Law
The First World War (1994) Martin Gilbert
A Diary form Dixie (1905) Mary Chestnut
Literature:
F. Scott Fitzgerald:The Great Gatsby/The Beautiful and the Damned?/Flappers and Philosophers/ Tales of the Jazz Age/This Side of Paradise
Sherwood Anderson: Winesburg, Ohio/ The Triumph of the Egg/ Horses and Men
William Faulkner: Light in August
James Agee: A Death in the Family/Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
George Orwell: Animal Farm (1946)
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind
