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Favorite Books of Utah Business Leaders

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

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