{"product_id":"the-leaders-bookshelf-25-great-books-and-their-readers-9781538135761","title":"The Leader's Bookshelf: 25 Great Books and Their","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich books inspired some of the world’s most successful people – and why? Come on a journey of literary exploration and find out how books can impact your life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt turns out that the life stories of many famous people start out with a particular book that inspired them when young. Here, Martin Cohen explores the lives of some remarkable people – inventors, scientists, business gurus and political leaders – and the books that have challenged, inspired, and influenced them. And so exploring the ideas, dreams and inspirations that this diverse group shared is at the heart of this book too. Inspiration, in particular, is the thread that ties together individuals with characters and backgrounds as diverse as Jimmy Carter and Henry Ford, Jane Goodall and Barack Obama, Malcolm X and Judge Clarence Thomas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOften, behind many tales of achievement lies much more than a collection of smart tactics. There are beliefs and values that guide many a grand strategy, too. And the strategies are often very different, which if you think about it, shouldn’t come as a surprise. If there really were just one recipe for success, well, everyone would be using it already. No, the thing that unifies these disparate approaches is that they all provided for their owners a kind of conceptual grid onto which a wide range of day-to-day creative, scientific, or business practices are able to develop and grow. For Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, for example, the grid was Charles Darwin’s notions of natural mutation and iteration. With Henry Ford, the man who pioneered the method of the assembly line, the grid was an obscure, ethereal theory of life as a sequence of reincarnations. And for both Oprah Winfrey and Steve Jobs, the grid was existentialist ideas about the pursuit of authenticity. In all these cases, a grand, indeed often philosophical, theory meshed perfectly with a practical business strategy. All of these remarkable people, and the books that most inspired them, are explored in this book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow to Use this Book\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart One: The Internet Billionaires\u003cbr\u003eThree chapters including:\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Steve Jobs’ Existentialism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. TBC, perhaps Mark Zuckerberg\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Google’s Hopeful Monsters Strategy\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart Two: The Business Entrepreneurs\u003cbr\u003eThree chapters including: \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Richard Branson rolls the Lucky Dice\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Oprah Winfrey, New Age Philosophy and the Seat of the Soul\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Mike Duffy, George Orwell and Behavioral Economics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Titans of Industry\u003cbr\u003eThree chapters including: \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: John D. Rockefeller’s Spiritual Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: TBC, perhaps Alfred Nobel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Henry Ford and ‘Eternalism’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: The Scientists\u003cbr\u003eThree chapters including:\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Edison, Inventions - and the Power of Common Sense\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Harry Kroto and the Magic of Buckminsterfullerene\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Jane Goodall, Ethnobiology and Dr Doolittle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Ten Children’s Books","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041162002775,"sku":"9781538135761","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538135761.jpg?v=1750949188","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-leaders-bookshelf-25-great-books-and-their-readers-9781538135761","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}