USA Today‘s Kevin Maney asks tech industry leaders to write about two favorite books, one old and one new, and shares the results in Tech leaders tell of books offering insight, wisdom. Yang Yuanqing, chairman of Lenovo, recommends Built to Last and The World is Flat.
Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab, which created the avatar-filled online world of Second Life, recommends The Mystery of Capital, by Hernando de Soto, and On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee.
Matthew Szulik, CEO of Red Hat, recommends On Becoming a Leader and Massive Change.
Larry Downes, associate dean of the Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems, “keeps coming back to” Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and admires The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law.