企业CEO可谓成功人士的典范,他们那么忙,平时怎么挤时间阅读的?爱看哪些书呢?哪些书对其影响大?今天让我们透过“文字翘楚”——《华盛顿邮报》前任老板唐·格雷厄姆的阅读喜好以及最喜欢的书籍来了解一下吧。
Words are woven into Don Graham's bloodline. He's the CEO of Graham Holdings, which today owns test prep and online education company Kaplan. His own career has been wide and varied and includes serving in Vietnam, as well as a year and a half stint as a Washington D.C. policeman. Don Graham took a few moments to chat about his reading with Fortune. The following are edited excerpts. How do you make time to read? Reading is one of the great pleasures of my life. I read more when I'm on vacation or when I'm traveling or on weekends, but I've always read a lot. What's your favorite guilty pleasure read? George Pelecanos's detective novels. Lots of cities have a local mystery writer and Pelecanos is the one for D.C. He wrote and directed a few of the episodes of The Wire. Forty years ago I was a cop in D.C. …some of his books take place at the same time, he gets down the interaction between police and citizens really well. He's a really good writer. What was your favorite book when you were a child? The Winnie-the-Pooh books, Dr. Seuss's Horton Hatches an Egg. John R. Tunis's baseball novels. He was the New York newspaperman of the day. They told stories that just hit me in the right way at that age. I read the Pooh books to my kids again. What book has had the most influence on you? When I was in my early 20s a friend sent me a book by a historian Robert Conquest, The Great Terrorone—one of the first attempts to write a history of the Stalin regime. My dad was a WWII vet. I had a grown up learning about WWII, but I did not understand who Stalin was and what he stood for. The Great Terror changed the way I thought about a lot of things. What's one leadership book everyone should read? There are so many. In addition to my mother's book, Churchill's Marlborough: His Life and Times. It's about Churchill's ancestor who has to build a coalition against the French, who had conquered most of Europe. It's Churchill's best book, which is saying something. A great leader writing about a great leader. (来源:《财富》 编辑:丁一) |
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