Tom has compiled a summer reading list of books focused on business strategy, leadership, and anticipating future trends. The list includes titles like The End of Competitive Advantage, The Second Machine Age, Leaders Eat Last, and The Nature of the Future. The books are meant to help readers think differently about strategy, comprehend exponential growth, build trust in organizations, and understand emerging social structures.

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2. Tom’s Summer Reading List

4. “You will be the same person in five years as
you are today except for the people you meet
and the books you read.” – Charlie “T” Jones

5. The End of Competitive Advantage
Photo:Tom Hood & Rita McGrath at BLIThought Leader Symposium in Baltimore, MD
“How
would
you
think
differently
about
your
strategy
if
you
knew
your
advantage
might
not
last?”
Tom
Hood
and
Rita
McGRath
at
BLI
Thought
Leader
series
in
Maryland

6. Flash Foresight
The
faster
things
change,
the
farther
and
wider
we
have
to
see.
Dan
Burrus
offers
some
great
strategies
to
see
these
trends
and
idenFfy
the
hard
trends
most
likely
to
impact
you
versus
the
soH
trends.
A
must
for
anybody
trying
to
anFcipate
the
future
beJer.

7. The Second Machine Age
The
biggest
challenge
we
face
is
to
comprehend
exponenFal
growth.
Two
MIT
computer
scienFsts
offer
insights
into
just
how
fast
technology
is
advancing
things
and
how
we
should
be
thinking
about
it.
If
you
want
stay
relevant,
this
book
will
help
you
as
organizaFons
and
individuals.

8. Perfecting Your Pitch

9. Leaders Eat Last
“There
are
leaders
and
there
are
those
that
lead.”
Sinek
does
it
again!
This
Fme
he
tackles
leadership
and
how
to
build
trust
in
our
organizaFons.

10. We
are
quickly
finding
out
that
when
we
go
from
a
centralized
communica8ons
infrastructure
to
a
distributed
one,
when
we
connect
everything
and
everyone,
the
result
is
not
just
to
make
things
faster,
be>er,
and
bigger.
The
social
system
itself
acquires
a
fundamentally
different
quality:
it
becomes
more
diversified,
more
emergent,
and
oCen
unpredictable.
The Nature of the Future
Marina
Gorbis,
ExecuFve
Director
of
the
InsFtute
for
the
Future
provides
some
great
insights
into
the
emerging
social
structured
world.

11. A Business & Its Beliefs
This
is
a
classic
but
helps
explain
the
endurance
of
a
company
over
Fme
when
it
gets
it’s
“why”
right.
An
easy
read
full
of
examples
of
how
IBM
became
one
of
the
most
successful
technology
companies
ever.

12. Look, Lead, Love & Learn
Bill
Sheridan
has
interviewed
some
of
the
top
thought
leaders
in
business
today
and
this
quick
read
is
like
having
the
cliff
notes
plus
the
added
perspecFve
of
Bill
Sheridan.
I
think
of
it
as
dispatches
from
the
future
of
business.

13. Bill
Sheridan,
CAE
The
Business
Learning
Ins6tute
The
Look,
Lead,
Love,
Learn
Book
Club
"Resilience:
Why
Things
Bounce
Back,"
by
Andrew
Zolli
and
Ann
Marie
Healy
"Flip!
How
to
Turn
Everything
You
Know
On
Its
Head
and
Succeed
Beyond
Your
Wildest
Dreams,"
by
Peter
Sheahan
"LeadershiL:
Reinven6ng
Leadership
for
the
Age
of
Mass
Collabora6on,"
by
Emmanuel
Gobillot
"Follow
the
Leader:
The
One
Thing
Great
Leaders
Have
that
Great
Followers
Want,"
by
Emmanuel
Gobillot
"Linchpin,"
by
Seth
Godin

14. Bill
Sheridan,
CAE
The
Business
Learning
Ins6tute
The
Look,
Lead,
Love,
Learn
Book
Club
"The
Likeability
Factor,"
by
Tim
Sanders
"Today
We
Are
Rich,"
by
Tim
Sanders
"Love
is
the
Killer
App,"
by
Tim
Sanders
"Escape
Velocity:
Free
Your
Company's
Future
from
the
Pull
of
the
Past,"
by
Geoffrey
Moore
"I
Love
You
More
Than
My
Dog,"
by
Jeanne
Bliss
"Give
and
Take,"
by
Adam
Grant

15. Bill
Sheridan,
CAE
The
Business
Learning
Ins6tute
The
Look,
Lead,
Love,
Learn
Book
Club
"Quiet:
The
Power
of
Introverts
in
a
World
that
Won't
Stop
Talking,"
by
Susan
Cain
"Flash
Foresight:
How
to
See
the
Invisible
and
Do
the
Impossible,"
by
Daniel
Burrus
"The
Silent
Language
of
Leaders,"
by
Carol
Kinsey
Goman
"The
Power
of
Habit:
Why
We
Do
What
We
Do
in
Life
and
in
Business,"
by
Charles
Duhigg
"Posi6vity:
Groundbreaking
Research,"
by
Barbara
Fredrickson

16. Bill
Sheridan,
CAE
The
Business
Learning
Ins6tute
The
Look,
Lead,
Love,
Learn
Book
Club
"The
Pla6num
Rule:
Discover
the
Four
Basic
Business
Personali6es
and
How
They
Can
Lead
You
to
Success,"
Tony
Alessandra
and
Michael
J.
O'Connor
“Drive,”
by
Daniel
Pink
“Start
With
Why,”
by
Simon
Sinek
“Innova6ve
Intelligence,”
by
David
Weiss
and
Claude
Legrand
“Regenera6on:
A
Manifesto
for
America’s
Next
Leaders,”
by
Rebecca
Ryan

17. Bill
Sheridan,
CAE
The
Business
Learning
Ins6tute
The
Look,
Lead,
Love,
Learn
Book
Club
“Trust
Your
Vibes:
Secret
Tools
for
Six-­‐Sensory
Living,”
by
Sonia
ChoqueJe
“Trust
Your
Vibes
at
Work
and
Let
Them
Work
For
You,”
by
Sonia
ChoqueJe
“The
Seven
Habits
of
Highly
Effec6ve
People,”
by
Stephen
Covey
“Life’s
Golden
Ticket:
An
Inspira6onal
Novel,”
by
Brendon
Burchard
“Lean
In,”
by
Sheryl
Sandberg

18. “...where the most important skill is
the ability to acquire new skills.”
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