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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