Enjoy this last month of summer! I'm heading to Maine to kayak and eat lobster with family and friends until September.
In the meantime, check out what CEOs are reading this year, compiled by McKinsey, for some great August reading, such as:
Churchill: The Power of Words, Martin Gilbert
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy, Colin S. Gray
Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules Updated for Today’s Business, Gerald A. Michaelson and Steven W. Michaelson
Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Daniel James Brown
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, Arianna Huffington
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Quantum Spy, David Ignatius
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Michael Lewis
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal, Eugene Soltes
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology, Jim Al-Khalili & Johnjoe McFadden
Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream, Stephen J. K. Walters
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J. D. Vance
Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines, Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari
Wild Ride: Inside Uber’s Quest for World Domination, Adam Lashinsky
Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality, Jaron Lanier
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond
The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency, James Andrew Miller
Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes, Richard Davenport-Hines
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, Kevin Kelly
Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond, Gideon Rachman