The great Bill Gates, the founder of the famous Microsoft, is not only an outstanding entrepreneur, full of innovative ideas and one of the richest Earthlings. In his busy schedule, he apparently also manages to squeeze time for reading, and so a few days ago he published a list of six books that impressed him the most this year and that he warmly recommends to all of us for summer reading.
1. Business Adventures (John Brooks), 1969
This famous book on entrepreneurship is more than two decades old for Gates recommended by the famous Warren Buffett and although it was written way back in 1969, according to Gates, it still is the best business book ever. Chapter 5 of this book, a must-read for all entrepreneurs, can be read for free here, and Gates' full review here.
2. Stress Test (Timothy F. Geithner), 2014
In this bestseller, Tim Geithner describes how, as chairman of the New York Federal Reserve and a key member of the Obama administration, he and a small group of politicians and economists made tough decisions during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression - a time when there was no certainty and no one knew when the economy would recover. At the same time, this story is intertwined with the story of his personal life - from growing up to feelings of guilt because the family had to take a different place during the crisis. You can buy the book here, and read Gates' full review here.
3. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Doris Kearns Goodwin), 2013
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The book, which looks into President Roosevelt's leadership style, raises questions that Gates finds extremely interesting: How do social changes happen? Only one is enough for them, exceptionally innovative and charismatic leader, are there other factors behind it? You can buy the book here.
4. The Rosie Project: A Novel (Graeme Simson), 2013
Above this book is Gates impressed his wife Melinda, who constantly read parts of the book to him while reading. When Bill Gates finally took up the book himself, he was so drawn to it that he read the book non-stop from eleven o'clock in the evening until three o'clock in the morning, and he plans to read it at least once more by the end of the year. A fun but deep novel about how important it is to accept who we are and what we are good at - the main character is professor of genetics with Asperger's syndrome. You can find the book here.
5. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Elizabeth Kolbert), 2014
The book, which calls people to reconsider what it means to be human, is about the sixth extinction, which threatens humanity. There have already been five such extinctions in human history (for example, when the dinosaurs died out due to an asteroid), but today, due to the active interference of humans in nature, the Earth is threatened by the sixth. You can find informative and interesting reading here.
6. Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System (Ezekiel J. Emanuel), 2014
American health care system it has a worldwide reputation as extremely expensive, complex and inefficient. One of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, presents in an objective way the bad and good sides of health reforms and his predictions about the future of American health care. You can buy the book here.
