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Original listing is found on Fortune web site. "In a perfect world, we'd each have our own consigliere. You know, a Robert Duvall, an oracle of Delphi - someone to follow us around 24/7 and whisper wise words. Paper, not plastic. Google, not Infoseek. No, your boss will not enjoy your Mr. Burns"
Here is the complete list:
Booms and Busts The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841). Funny Money by Mark Singer (1985). The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish '60s by John Brooks (1973). The Corporation Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar (1990). Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras (1994). Chainsaw: The Notorious Career of Al Dunlap in the Era of Profit-at-Any-Price by John Byrne (1999). Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner (2002). Decision-Making Annapurna: A Woman's Place by Arlene Blum (1980). The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam (1972). In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (2000). The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (1974). Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy (1969). Economics Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter (1942). Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner (1996). The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Chapter 12) by John Maynard Keynes (1936). Pop Internationalism by Paul Krugman (1996). The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776). Ethics Den of Thieves by James Stewart (1991). The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald (2000). Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing by Joseph L. Badaracco (2002). The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind (2003). The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (1875). Globalization Beijing Jeep: The Short, Unhappy Romance of American Business in China by Jim Mann (1989). Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (1999). The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto (2000). Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright (2000). The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin (1991). Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age by Sebastio Salgado (1993). Investing The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America compiled by Lawrence Cunningham (1997). Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2001). The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham (1949). Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (2003). Leadership Never Give In: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches edited by grandson Winston S. Churchill (2003). On Leadership by John Gardner (1990). Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch (1988). Personal History by Katharine Graham (1997). Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. by Ron Chernow (1998). Negotiating and Managing A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr (1995). The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker (1966). Remember Every Name Every Time by Benjamin Levy (2002). Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off with Chrysler by Bill Vlasic and Bradley A. Stertz (2000). Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever (2003). Office Politics Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller (2003). The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill by Ron Suskind (2004). The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1513). Something Happened by Joseph Heller (1974). Power Father Son & Co: My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas Watson Jr. and Peter Petre (1990). The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Keister (1998). Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street by David McClintick (1982). Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini (1993). The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro (1974). Project Management American Steel: Hot Metal Men and The Resurrection of The Rust Belt by Richard Preston (1991). The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug by Barry Werth (1994). Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner (1990). The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1986). Strategy The Art of War by Sun Tzu (circa 500 B.C.). Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (1999). Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian (1997). Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove (1996). The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000). Technology and Innovation The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television by Evan I. Schwartz (2002). New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America by Richard Tedlow (1990). They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovation from the Steam Engine to the Search Engine by Harold Evans (2004). Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey (1992). The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the 19th Century's On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage (1998). Wall Street Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein (1996). Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse (1999). Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lef«evre (1923). When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (2000). Where Are the Customers' Yachts? by Fred Schwed Jr. (1940). Work and Life Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001). Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout by Steven Berglass (2001). The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild (1997). Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel (1974).
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