Best Books of 2016 according to Bill Gates
Books / / December 19, 2019
Before the New Year to sum up the results, and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is no exception. Here are five books that have made strong impression on him and was surprised with unexpected ideas in 2016.
Bill Gates became the favorites books on various subjects: tennis, sports shoes, genomics and leadership. Here's what he wrote about it in his blog.
"String theory", David Foster Wallace
"String theory" has nothing to do with physics, but you look a lot smarter if you open the book with the same name on the train or plane. "String theory" - is a collection consisting of the five best essays Wallace about tennis. I gave up tennis while working at Microsoft, but once again they passionately carried away. However, to fall in love with this book, it is not necessary to know how to play tennis. Author owns a pen as skillfully as Roger Federer - tennis racket.
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"The seller of shoes," Phil Knight
Story co-founder of Nike - is unusually honest reminder of how really looks the way to success in business: heavy, unstable, full of errors. I have met several times Knight. He has very to himself, but at the same time quiet. In this book, Knight says about how leaders are inclined to act in different situations. I do not think that the goal is to find - to teach the reader something. Instead, he does something even better: tells his story as honestly as possible. And this is the main charm of the book.
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"Genes", Siddhartha Mukherjee
Doctors called a triple threat: they treat patients, teach medical students and conduct their own research. We Mukherjee, who is engaged in all of these things at Columbia University, and the fourth has a personality: he is a writer, received the Pulitzer Prize.
In his latest book, Mukherjee takes us from the past to the present and future of the science of the genome, paying particular attention to ethical issues. They become particularly acute because of the significant technological advances in genomics. Mukherjee wrote this book for the general public, because he understands the new technologies in genomics affect everyone and affect our lives.
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"The myth of a strong leader," Archie Brown
A fierce election campaign this year prompted me to read the book in 2014, written by a scholar of Oxford University, which is more than 50 years studying the political leadership - the good, the bad and disgusting. Brown argues that leaders who have made the greatest contribution to the history, not usually the ones who are called strong leaders. These are people who work, delegate authority, are open to negotiations and recognize that one person may not be the answer to all questions. Brown could not even imagine what will cause resonance of his book in 2016.
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"Network", Gretchen Bakke
This book is about the obsolescence of power written in one of my favorite genres, "a book about everyday things that are really exciting." Part of the "Network" is interesting to me because my first job was writing software more at the University for the organization that manages the mains in the North West.
But even if you never for a moment thought about how electricity gets to your outlets, the this book will convince you that the electric network - one of the great engineering wonders of the modern world. I think you also want to know why the modernization of the network is so complex and so important for clean energy in the future.
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