Connect Magazine recently put out their 2007 Reader’s Choice Awards. For many of the 25 people featured, they each listed an answer to the question:
“Which book has had the greatest impact on your leadership style”
I thought a compilation of their answers might be interesting: When page loads completely, the links below will take you to more information about the book
- The Papers of Theodore Roosevelt — Jon Huntsman, Utah State Governor
- Opportunity Knocks Twice by Don C. Hale and Mark R. Hale — Scott Anderson, President and CE, Zion’s Bank
- When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein — Todd Crosland, Chairman and CEO, Interbank FX
- Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen — Larry H. Miller, CEO, Larry H. Miller Group
- Good to Great by Jim Collins.
- Lane Beattie, President and CEO, Salt Lake Chamber
- Alan Hall, Founder and Chairman, Grow Utah Ventures
- Matthew Godfrey, Mayor, Ogden City
- Richard Nelson, President and CEO, Utah Technology Council
- Nicole Toomey Davis, Director, Centers of Excellence Program, Governor’s Office of Economic Development
- Will West, CEO, Control4
- Straight From the Gut by Jack Welch– Josh James, CEO, Omniture Inc.
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore — James Lee Sorenson, Vice Chairman, Sorenson Companies
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell — Jason Perry, Executive Director, Governor’s Office of Economic Development
- Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky — Jack Brittain, Dean, David Eccles School of Business; Vice Presiden, Technology Venture Development, University of Utah
- Rules for Revolutionaries by Guy Kawasaki — Dinesh Patel, Managing Director, vSpring Capital
- The Age of Discontinuity by Peter F. Drucker — Ragula Bhaskar, President and CEO, Fatpipe Networks
- International Business by Michael R. Czinkota — Lew Cramer, President and CEO, World Trace Center Utah
- Peak Performers by Charles Garfield — Jack Sunderlage, President and CEO, ContentWatch Inc
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni — Jill Miller, Managing Director, Sundance Institute
- Competitive Advantage by Michael E. Porter — Craig Bott, President and CEO, Grow Utah Ventures
- One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson — Becky Potts, President, Morris Murdock Travel
- A World Waiting to be Born by Scott Peck — William A. Sederburg, President, Utah Valley State College
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck — Bret J. Brockbank, President, Intermountain Staffing Resources
- The Extraordinary Leader by Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman — David S. Layton, President and CEO, Layton Companies
Popularity: 33% [?]
