15 successful CEOs share the one business book they think everyone should read by Glen Allsopp on Apr 25, 2018, 11:37 AM Advertisement
 - Books are an accessible way for anyone to gain business acumen.
- We spent two months talking to CEOs about their daily schedules and how they find inspiration.
- Unsurprisingly, many CEOs turn to business-related books for inspiration — here are the features you'll want to add to your bookshelf.
We've spent more than two months gathering insights from CEOs across a variety of industries to learn more about their daily schedules. From what time they wake up, how often they workout and what they do in their downtime, we've been able to paint a picture of the structure that business leaders follow. We also asked them, "If you had to recommend just one business-related book, what would it be?"
The end result unsurprisingly includes a number of business and marketing classics, but also features authors we're confident you'll be looking to add to your bookshelf. SEE ALSO: 15 books world-famous CEOs think everyone should read in their lifetime 1. 'Scaling Up' by Verne Harnish  Bruce Clay, founder of the marketing agency with the same name, has been on the Inc 5,000 list of America’s fastest growing private companies nine times in a row(!). He recommends "Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It … and Why the Rest Don't" as a book that helped him in his business life. The book comes 10 years after the publication of his business classic, "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits." The focus here is on building the tools and techniques for growing a company that is not only profitable, but industry dominating.
2. 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' by Dale Carnegie  Will Schenk, CEO of HappyFunCorp, a New York-based engineering firm that works with Fortune 500 companies thinks everyone should read this Dale Carnegie classic. First published in 1936, this is one of the bestselling self-help books of all time, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide. It is Amazon’s 11th highest selling nonfiction book; in 2011 it was the 19th book in Times Magazine’s list of the most influential books of all time and the Library of Congress has ranked it as the seventh most influential book in American history. Warren Buffett claims it changed his life and he still has the diploma from the course Dale Carnegie ran in conjunction with the book hanging in his office.
3. 'Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup' by Brad Feld and David Cohen  Hurree Labs — which develops notification software for applications — is the brainchild of Aaron Gibson, an alumni of the Techstars London Accelerator program. It should be no surprise then that he recommends a book by its founders. Operating in three cities, TechStars is a mentorship driven startup accelerator. Once a year it funds ten startups in each of the cities it's based in and provides them with access to fifty top Internet investors and entrepreneurs. The book is a series of essays, edited by TechStars founders, featuring stories and lessons from those who have worked successfully with the program.
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