Bill Gates recommends "6 books to read for TED conference"

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Founder of Microsoft, nowBill & Melinda Gates FoundationBill · Gates, who is doing the activity, reads the books that are impressive every year, reading that yearlistI am publishing it on my blog. Apart from this, GatesTED conferenceA list of "six books to be read" summarized in making a lecture in "

6 Books I Recommended for TED 2015 | Bill Gates
http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/6-Books-I-Recommended-for-TED-2015

◆ 1:Where do people and companies mistake? --- Exploring the essence of success and failure "10 stories": John Brooks
This book was recommended to read from Warren Buffett, which I have not yet met since 1991, and even after nearly 25 years passed since then, Gates is "the best business book ever." I am praised by letting go. It is written about the basics of business such as how to make big organization, hiring talented people with the right skills, listening to customer feedback.


Especially chapters about Xerox that Gates likes can be downloaded for free from the following page.

Here's a Chapter From My Favorite Business Book | Bill Gates


◆ 2:The Bully Pulpit: Doris · Kearns · Goodwin
In this book by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the 26th President of the United States of AmericaTheodore · RooseveltAnd the 27th presidentWilliam TaftBased on his background, it is written about the theme "how society changes" that Gates is interested. Explaining why the change of society is due to the power of a person with spiritual leadership, or whether it is due to factors that become another foundation, with the president's episodes.


◆ 3:On Immunity: Eura Bis
"On Immunity" written by Essayist Eura Bis is a content that unravels the misunderstanding about the vaccine spreading to the United States with the power of literary analysis, psychology and science. Author 's Bis wrote this book is not an academic purpose, it is due to himself becoming a mother. Gates introduces "A perfect book for a newly parenting couple".


◆ 4:Making the Modern World: Vaclav Smir
Author and historian Vaclav Smir is Gates's favorite writer, and he has read all the works so far. In this book, researches on materials that enable modern living such as cement, iron, aluminum, plastics, etc. have been conducted, for example in China the same amount of cement that the United States consumed through the 20th century in the past three years It is said that it consumed.


◆ 5:How Asia Works: Joe Studwell
A business journalist studwell talks about "why countries such as Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China are continuing high growth" and "why other countries can not do it"? Through commentary Studwell said that "to create an environment where small farmers thrive", "to invest in revenue in facilities to produce export goods" and "to grow both of the above industries through careful monetary policy by the government I am talking about the importance of.


◆ 6:Law to lie in statistics - Introductory statistics without mathematics: Darrell Huff
The first edition was published in 1954, but this is Gates's article by Wall Street JournalBest Books for InvestorsHe said that he knew it. Although it was written over 60 years ago, Gates says that it has contents that can not be faded at all and that it has enough charm to modern today. In one chapter it is written how the visual exaggerates and distorts the actual figures, which is important in situations where the wrong content is conveyed, with many infographic posts posted on modern Facebook and Twitter It shows the contents.