Here's a list of books written by CEOs, about CEOs, and about business.
In chronological order
- Leadership Matters...The CEO Survival Manual (2007) (Mike Myatt)
- Winning (2005) (Jack Welch)
- The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Grow, or Manage a Business (2005) (Martha Stewart)
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (2002) (Larry Bossidy)
- Time to Make the Donuts (2001) (William Rosenberg)
- Straight from the Gut (2001) (Jack Welch)
- Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy (2000) (Bill Gates)
- Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry (2000) (Michael Dell)
- Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond (reprint 2000) (Thomas J. Watson, Jr.)
- Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (1999) (Howard Schultz)
- Take It to the Next Level: A Story of the Quest for Quality and the Malcolm Baldrige Award (1999) (Dale Crownover)
- Work in Progress (1998) (Michael Eisner)
- Sam Walton: Made in America (1993) (Sam Walton)
- No Excuses Management (1993) (TJ Rodgers)
- Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time (Forbes) (1997)
- Only The Paranoid Survive (1996) (Andrew Grove)
- The HP Way : How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (1996) (David Packard)
- My Years with General Motors (reprint 1990) (Alfred Sloan)
- Iacocca: An Autobiography (reprint 1986) (Lee Iacocca)
- Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's (1977, reprint 1990) (Ray Kroc)
- J.R.D Tata: Beyond the Last Blue Mountain.
- Chief Executive Magazine - The Magazine on Best Business Practices for Chief Executive Officer
- The Complete Manual on How to Make Money from Your Inventions and Patents (2000) (Steve Barbarich)
- If it's impossible, it's actually interesting (2012)(Rakesh Aryasomayajula)
