Warrington alumni summer reading list suggestions
by Peter F. Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman | Harvard Business Review
“Most MBA professionals manage (or aspire to manage) others as part of their career progression. There are entire libraries available on communication, behavior theory, and little tricks to increase productivity in employees but those all fall short if you can’t properly manage yourself. I believe this collection of HBR articles is essential to any manager as the lessons learned can be applied immediately to how managers can improve their own time management, goal setting, and personal integrity before expecting the same from others.
Managing others always starts with managing oneself since internal discipline establishes the foundation in which you will use in your dealings with your employees.”
– Rob Oden, MBA ’21, Senior Manager, Cybersecurity Architecture, L3Harris
By Phil Knight
“Students will better understand entrepreneurship and the grit required to build a company from the ground up. One of the most inspiring business books I’ve ever read. Not only will readers gain a better understanding of what it takes to be an entrepreneur, the principles expressed can be applied as an intrapreneur in any organization.”
– Patrick Claps, BABA ’17, Consultant, Deltek
By John C. Maxwell
“This book lists all the different ways on how you can be the best leader and how to apply these practices. The book provides great, concrete examples to better understand the different ‘laws’ of leadership.”
– Jenna Waterous, BSBA ’20, MIB ’21, Sales Executive Representative, Whirlpool
By Stephen A. Schwarzman
“Here is a story about a man who came from humble beginnings yet turned his dreams into reality. ‘What it Takes’ by Stephen A. Schwarzman is a true story of how a middle-class kid from Philadelphia became the King of Wall Street. From climbing up the corporate ranks at Lehman Brothers to founding the largest private equity company in the world, Blackstone, this book will teach any aspiring entrepreneur what it truly takes to succeed in business and in life.”
– Andy Hidalgo, BA ’19, Co-Founder, Hidalgo Companies
By John Spence
“I read this book years before working for John! He really makes the principles (and harder concepts) to have a successful life as a leader and businessman very simple. I would recommend this book to anyone in the business field. I even made a PPT for my family in Spanish to explain the book for them. It is that good.”
– Adriana Alises Menendez, MIB ’20, International Operations and Communications Director, John Spence, LLC
By Jason Fried
“This book provides excellent advice about how to create a personal work environment/corporate culture that helps avoid the burnout that so many employees end up suffering during their careers. The overall theme is a guide on essentially how to work smarter, not harder in order to run a business better or to reduce employee attrition. So often we only theorize about how to achieve a work-life balance, but the book details amazingly helpful tips and examples to help readers implement that change.”
– Brandon Harris, BABA ’16, Contact & Product Ops Associate, Google
By Robert Kiyosaki
“It is a great financial planning book and explains good principles for finances and business finances.”
– Samantha Hoover, BSBA ’24
By Bob Iger
“Where you come from does not matter, what you do with the opportunities is all that matters.
There is not a better company in this world to follow from a business perspective than Disney with its acquisitions process. Bob Iger takes us through the decisions that led to buying Pixar (Marvel, Lucas films); lessons he himself learned from other CEOs; his personal habit that makes him successful.”
– Miraal Chhelavda, BABA ’17, Law student
