The Books Leaders in Sports were Reading in?2023 - ASM

Like every year we’ve ask all our guests for their book recommendations, to get some inspiration for our readers and of course ourselves as well :)

Sports-Related

Bill Walsh: The Score Takes Care Of Itself

James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales: Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World Of ESPN

Josh Appelbaum: The Everything Guide To Sports Betting

Micheal Lewis: Moneyball

Gerardo Molina: Adversitig. the era of reinvention

Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin: From Impossible To Inevitable

Ben Horowitz: The Hard Things About Hard Things

Dan Thoma: The Corporate Startup

Peter Thiel: Zero To One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Salim Ismail: Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

Walter Isaacson: The Innovators

Business-Related

Clayton Christensen: The Innovator’s Dilemma

Deepak Malhotra: Negotiating The Impossible

Don Norman: Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle: Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell

Geoffrey A. Moore: Crossing The Chasm

Gerardo Molina: Tecnolandia. Techland

Jocko WIllow, Leif Babin: The Dichotomy Of Leadership

Karen Berman, Joe Knight: Financial Intelligence: A Manager’s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

Keith Ferrazzi: Never Eat Alone

Ken Kocienda: Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

Kenneth Blanchard: The One Minute Manager

Ozan Varol: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

Pedro Domingos: The Master Algorithm

Satya Nadella: Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

Simon Sinek: Start With Why

Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner: Freakonomics

How 2023 stacked up

This year’s list was certainly the longest and possibly the most unique as well. Once again, the business-related category seemed to lead the way in recommendations and all the challenges that have come along with it, these books might have offered some useful strategy, tips and inspiration. A few familiar titles resurfaced in this year’s list: Peter Thiel’s ‘Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future’, Nike founder, Phil Knight’s memoir, ‘Shoe Dog,’ and Keith Ferrazzi’s business success guide, ‘Never Eat Alone’ (which might have been hard advice to follow in 2023).