Previous Year Mark Zuckerberg made a commitment to read one book every two weeks. "Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today," he wrote on his personal Facebook page. "I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books."
I decided to put a list
of his books on business that he highlighted and recommended to read for every
aspiring or even already well-established entrepreneur.
Mark Zuckerberg's
inaugural pick for his "Year of Books" challenge, The End of Power
updates the very notion of power for the 21st century. Power, we know, is
shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to
public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups
and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely dispersing;
it is also decaying. Those in power today are more constrained in what they can
do with it and more at risk of losing it than ever before.
From Ed Catmull,
co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, the
Academy Award–winning studio behind Inside Out and Toy Story, comes an incisive
book about creativity in business—sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom
Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Fast Company raves that Creativity, Inc. “just
might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”
Hank Paulson has dealt
with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a
pivotal role in opening up China to private enterprise. Then, as Treasury
secretary, he created the Strategic Economic Dialogue with what is now the
world's second-largest economy. He negotiated with China on needed economic
reforms, while safeguarding the teetering U.S. financial system. Over his
career, Paulson has worked with scores of top Chinese leaders, including Xi
Jinping, China's most powerful man in decades.
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
Nearly forty percent of
humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had
to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food
on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle
emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world
must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the first book to
systematically explain how the poor find solutions to their everyday financial
problems.
Brilliant and
engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the
experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by
wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
World Order
Henry Kissinger offers
in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and
global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of
the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping
the central foreign policy events of recent decades—Kissinger now reveals his
analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a
shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives,
violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
From its beginnings in
the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and
development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory
for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital
communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern
life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs. In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner
traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions
and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At
its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant
and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and
Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs. Today, when the drive to
invent has become a mantra, Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our
understanding of the challenges and solutions to technological innovation.
Here, after all, was where the foundational ideas on the management of
innovation were born.
Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge
Why do Internet,
financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do
political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize
anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals
during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single
concept: common knowledge.Also take a look at non-business realted books that Mark read in 2015 that definetely broaden your perspective.
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Princeton Classics)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
On Immunity: An Inoculation
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Player of Games (Culture)
Energy: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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