{"id":5881,"date":"2017-05-21T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2025-12-03T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:31:14","slug":"the-books-every-new-graduate-should-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2017\/05\/21\/the-books-every-new-graduate-should-read\/","title":{"rendered":"The Books Every New Graduate Should Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRpond]<\/em><\/p>\n

New graduates may think they\u2019re ready for the world, but even after all that learning, there\u2019s still room in their heads for some wisdom. We asked a dozen business leaders\u2014from CEOs of big companies and startups, to deans of leading business schools\u2014what books they would put in the hands of a newly minted graduate. Here\u2019s what they recommended:<\/p>\n

The Boys in the Boat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel James Brown\u2019s account of an underdog rowing team beating the elite squads of the US and Europe on its way to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin is \u201ca vivid description of grit, hustle and, perseverance,\u201d said Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of Hyatt, the hotel company. \u201cIf you want to be part of a team, you have to be willing to give up some of your self.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Five People You Meet in Heaven<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sportswriter Mitch Albom\u2019s best seller from 2006 teaches us \u201cyou never know who you touch or the impact you have,\u201d said Jennifer Morgan, president of SAP North America, a unit of the German software giant. \u201cHaving a perspective beyond business is something you value as you get older.\u201d<\/p>\n

Churchill<\/strong><\/p>\n

This 2001 biography of the UK prime minister, written by Roy Jenkins, is \u201ca great tale of failure, perseverance, the importance of timing, and overcoming adversity,\u201d said Peter Todd, dean of HEC, a top-ranked business school in Paris.<\/p>\n

Team of Teams<\/strong><\/p>\n

Retired general Stanley McChrystal, who led US special operations in Iraq between 2003 and 2008, makes the case for a new way of organizing companies and work around small, nimble teams. McCrystal shows \u201chow the sum is greater than the parts,\u201d said Bill Clough, CEO of CUI Global, a small industrial conglomerate, and a former police officer and air marshal.<\/p>\n

Arcadia<\/strong><\/p>\n

This 1993 play by Tom Stoppard combines the past and present to explore the meaning of truth. \u201cYou can\u2019t possibly know what happened unless you were there, and people don\u2019t always act in rational ways,\u201d said Kathryn Minshew, CEO of The Muse, a job-search site that targets millennials. \u201cIt\u2019s helpful not to jump to conclusions and assumptions about who, what, when and why, without knowing.\u201d
\nArcadia, By Tom Stoppard
\n(cover artwork \u00a9 Nattle\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

The Obstacle is the Way<\/strong><\/p>\n

This 2014 book by Ryan Holiday is \u201ca book about stoic philosophy,\u201d said Grant Langston, CEO of eHarmony, an online dating company. \u201cIt shows you that the hard way can be the right way; the act of getting into it can be the solution to the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hero\u2019s Journey<\/strong><\/p>\n

This volume, edited by Phil Cousineau, weaves interviews with Joseph Campbell\u2014the famed writer and lecturer on mythology\u2014with insights from the anthropologists, filmmakers, and musicians inspired by his work. \u201cIt\u2019s about the mythology of life,\u201d said Rick Goings, CEO of Tupperware, the houseware company. \u201cIt expands your vision of what the road of life could look like.\u201d<\/p>\n

The End of Power<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mois\u00e9s Na\u00edm, a former editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy, explains how ideas about authority and control are rapidly changing in this 2013 treatise. \u201cHis theory is that power is very easy to acquire, difficult to exercise, and impossible to keep with the changing realities of our world,\u201d said Rajeev Vasudeva, CEO of Egon Zehnder, a global executive search firm.
\nThe End of Power, Moises Naim
\n(Basic Books)<\/p>\n

1984 and The Weapons Shop of Isher<\/strong><\/p>\n

These two works of speculative fiction\u2014 the 1949 classic by George Orwell and an out-of-print 1951 novel by A.E. van Vogt\u2014offer two visions of a dystopian future. \u201cNew graduates are charged with developing their relationships with society: family, co-workers, government,\u201d said Jeff Jonas, CEO of SAGE Therapeutics, a biotechnology company. \u201cWhile 1984 is embraced nowadays as being more prophetic, the Isher stories provide an alternative view of how one can deal with an oppressive government.\u201d
\n1984, by George Orwell
\n(Penguin Random House)<\/p>\n

The Innovators<\/strong><\/p>\n

A history of the men and women who created the computer and the internet, this 2014 book was written by Walter Isaacson, author of biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Steve Jobs. \u201cThe innovation challenge is the most important one facing the western world today,\u201d said Geoff Garrett, dean of the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s business school.
\nThe Innovators, by Walter Isaacson
\n(Simon & Schuster)<\/p>\n

The Fourth Industrial Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Klaus Schwab, founder of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, theorizes that we\u2019re currently at the beginning of a new age that will fundamentally change how we live and work. \u201cIf you were a college student and you read that talked about it in a job interview, they\u2019d be really impressed,\u201d said Catherine Engelbert, CEO of Deloitte, an accounting and consulting firm.<\/p>\n

Middlemarch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dee Leopold, the former director of admissions for the Harvard Business School, recommends this 1872 classic by George Eliot \u201cto young and old alike. Why? I think the characters are intriguing, compelling plot lines and an absolutely exquisite narrator\u2019s voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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