Lista mostra o que 10 CEOs de grandes empresas estão lendo no momento

Inspiração pode não ser nada sem transpiração, mas que ela ajuda nos negócios não se pode negar. Muitos desses insights veem de livros e a consultoria McKinsey and Company perguntou a alguns dos maiores CEOs do mundo quais livros os têm mantido ocupados ao longo das últimas semanas.

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A pergunta foi respondida por 10 grandes nomes do mundo dos negócios – CEOs – e você pode saber os livros que têm acompanhado os gestores de grandes players; confira:

Maria Ramos, Barclays Africa

The Gene: An Intimate History—Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner, 2016)

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies—Nick Bostrom (Oxford University Press, 2014)

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness—Arundhati Roy (Knopf, June 2017)

Fabio Schvartsman, Vale

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind—Yuval Noah Harari (Harper, 2015)

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike—Phil Knight (Scribner, 2016)

Sigmund Freud en son temps et dans le nôtre—Élisabeth Roudinesco (Seuil, 2014)

Satya Nadella, Microsoft

Leonardo da Vinci—Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 2017)

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality—Jaron Lanier (Henry Holt and Co., 2017; )

Exit West—Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead Books, 2017)

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City—Matthew Desmond (Broadway Books, 2017)

Francisco Pérez Mackenna, Quiñenco

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds—Michael Lewis (W. W. Norton & Company, 2016)

Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal—Eugene Soltes (PublicAffairs, 2016)

Life After Life—Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books, 2013)

Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology—Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe McFadden (Crown, 2014)

Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream—Stephen J. K. Walters (Stanford University Press, 2014)

David McKay, Royal Bank of Canada

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis—J. D. Vance (Harper, 2016)

Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines—Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby (Harper Business, 2016)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind—Yuval Noah Harari (Harper, 2015)

Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination—Adam Lashinsky (Portfolio, May 2017)

Sir Martin Sorrell, WPP

Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency—James Andrew Miller (Custom House, 2016)

Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes—Richard Davenport-Hines (HarperCollins, 2015)

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future—Ashlee Vance (Ecco, 2015)

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Dominic Barton, líder global da McKinsey & Company

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future—Kevin Kelly (Viking, 2016)

Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond—Gideon Rachman (Other Press, 2017)

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow—Yuval Noah Harari (Harper, 2017)

Andrew Liveris, da Dow Chemical Company

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder—Arianna Huffington (Harmony, 2015)

The Sympathizer—Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press, 2016)

The Quantum Spy—David Ignatius (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017)

Gail Kelly, membro do G30 e ex-CEO da Westpac

Lab Girl—Hope Jahren (Vintage, 2017)

Pachinko—Min Jin Lee (Grand Central Publishing, 2017)

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics—Daniel James Brown (Penguin Books, 2014)

General sir Nick Carter, chefe do Estado-Maior do Exército britânico

Churchill: The Power of Words—Martin Gilbert (Da Capo Press, 2012)

Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy—Colin S. Gray (Potomac Books, 2009)

Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules Updated for Today’s Business—Gerald A. Michaelson and Steven W. Michaelson (Adams Media, 2010)

Agora é só seguir a dica desses CEOs e encontar um livro para inspirar ou simplesmente distrair a mente. 

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