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Summaries of the Books that Guide America’s Elite CEOs F O R T U N E 50 0 J ULIA WITTR O CK GR A NT HENSEL What the Fortune 500 Read: Summaries of the Books That Guide America’s Elite CEOs Grant Hensel Julia Wittrock DESIGN BY JACOB WEINZETTEL Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved. No part of this publication text may be uploaded or posted online without the prior written permission of the publisher. Introduction 9 Building A Great Company Good To Great 13 Great By Choice 19 The Outsiders 24 Built To Last 28 The Advantage 33 In Search Of Excellence 38 How The Mighty Fall 41 Winning 46 Change Execution 52 Leading Change 57 Our Iceberg Is Melting 62 Global Tilt 67 The Goal 70 Switch 75 Communication Getting To Yes 81 Made To Stick 86 Give And Take 91 Epic Stories Team Of Rivals 98 Moneyball 103 The Innovators 106 Steve Jobs 110 Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? 115 American Icon 119 Titan 123 Abundance 128 The Big Short 133 Business Adventures 137 Barbarians At The Gate 142 Only The Paranoid Survive 146 Wealth Of Nations 151 Leadership The Effective Executive 156 The Speed Of Trust 162 True North 167 Leadership Is An Art 173 Wooden On Leadership 176 The Five Temptations Of A Ceo 180 The Power Of Many 184 Taking People With You 188 Management The Leadership Pipeline 192 Management 196 The Will To Manage 200 The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team 204 Strategy Competitive Strategy 209 Blue Ocean Strategy 216 The Strategist Ceo 220 Playing To Win 225 Personal Development The Bible 231 The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People 236 Lincoln On Leadership 241 Strengthsfinder 2.0 246 Never Eat Alone 250 The Power Of Habit 255 Conclusion 261 Introduction WHAT THE FORTUNE 500 READ You could have written this book. Take a moment and notice how your brain instinctively responded to the statement above. Did it invoke curiosity, skepticism, excitement, disbelief? Now listen to the story of how What the Fortune 500 Read came about, and see how your view changes. We (Julia Wittrock and Grant Hensel) love learning about business and wanted to know which books to focus our time on. A mutual friend, Miles, suggested we ask the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies for recommendations, and with that we were off to the races. To begin, we drafted an incredibly short letter – two sen- tences – to communicate a three crucial points to the For- tune CEOs: - Your accomplishments are incredible - Your advice is invaluable to us - We would love to read your favorite business book 9 WHAT THE FORTUNE 500 READ And with that, we bought fancy paper, printed 500 cop- ies, added our signature and a hand-written P.S., and put them in the mail, destined for each company’s corporate headquarters. Three days later, the avalanche started. We remember getting the first personal email in response only a few days later, and marveling at how efficient the corporate mail processing systems must have been. We remember the first phone call with a CEO, who was impressed with our initiative and wanted to say hi. We remember a moment the next week when we got over 30 recommendations in a single day. When it was all said and done, 150 CEOs recommended books. Given that these individuals have nearly unlimited amounts of work to do, the fact that so many would take time to personally help complete strangers, expecting nothing in return, is astonishing. Generous folks appar- ently end up at the top surprisingly often. This is a lesson we will remember long after writing this book: we have a responsibility to guide and mentor the next generation. 10
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