The Board Member Reading List 2024

Our board member reading list 2024, compiled from Enter the Boardroom guests and members of the Nurole Board Community

🏆 Most recommended

• Rebel Ideas, Matthew Syed 
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman 
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t, Jim Collins 

Full list 

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy, Hamilton Helmer
• Anticipating Disruption, Roger Parry
• Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management, Caitlin Rosenthal
• Anthro-Vision, Gillian Tett
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert Sapolsky
• Belonging: Unlock Your Potential with the Ancient Code of Togetherness, Owen Eastwood
• Bilderberg People: Elite Power and Consensus in World Affairs, Andrew Kakabadse, Ian Richardson, and Nada Kakabadse
• Boards: A Practical Perspective, Patrick Dunne
• CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest, Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller and Vikram Malhotra
• Cobalt Red : How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, Siddarth Kara
• Collective Intelligence: How to build a business that’s smarter than you, Jennifer Sundberg and Pippa Begg
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey A. Moore
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg Mckeown
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay
• Flashboys: A Wall Street Revolt, Michael Lewis
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters, Richard Rumelt
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don’t, Jim Collins
• Grit: Why passion and resilience are the secrets to success, Angela Duckworth
• How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration, Professor Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
• How the Trading Floor Really Works, Terri Duhon
• Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez
• It's a Battle on the Board: The No-fibbing Guide for Trustees, Debra Allcock Tyler
• Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita, Ace Simpson
• Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
• Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
• Maverick, Ricardo Semler  
• Mastering Executive Transitions: The Definitive Guide, Navid Nazemian PCC
• Memos from the Chairman, Alan C. Greenberg
• Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take, Andrew S. Winston and Paul Polman
• Rebel Ideas, Matthew Syed
• Range, David Epstein
• Reboot: A Blueprint for Happy, Human Business in the Digital Age, Jason Stockwood
• Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
• Scoring Points: How Tesco Continues to Win Customer Loyalty, Clive Humby, Ted Hunt and Tim Phillips
• Secrets of Sandhill Road, Scott Kupor
• Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organisational Life, Barry Oshrey
• Shoedog, Phil Knight
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Predictions, Dan Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Sean Covey, Jim Huling, Chris McChesney
• The Activist Director, Ira M. Millstein
• The Billion Dollar Whale, Bradley Hope and Tom Wright
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Eli Goldratt
• The making of us: why school matters, Clarissa Farr
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton M. Christensen
• The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company, Michael S. Malone
• The Non-Executive Director’s Handbook, NEDA, 6th Edition
• The Power of Not Thinking: Why We Should Stop Thinking and Start Trusting Our Bodies, Simon Roberts
• The Power of Letting Go, John Purkiss
• The Promise that Changes Everything, Nancy Klein
• The Sales Accreditation Formula, Mark Roberge
• The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, Julia Galef 
• The Secret Sauce: Superscale your business and empower your talent with empathetic leadership, Sam Smith
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
• The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? Michael J. Sandel
• The Virgin Banker: My Life in Finance, Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia
• Think Again, Adam Grant
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• Time to Think, Nancy Kline
• Trillion Dollar Coach, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle  
• Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers and Create Success on Your Own Terms, Shellye Archambeau
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How To Create Your Business Culture, Ben Horowitz
• Where You Are Is Not Who You Are, Ursula Burns
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë