Advice for CEOs

To be the CEO of an emerging business—a company that our firm helps get past No Man’s Land so it can grow to scale and create wealth for you—is to grapple every day with many issues that clamor for your attention. Finding and selling to new customers; keeping existing customers in the fold; dealing with investors and vendors; overseeing finances.

With the holidays over and winter upon us, what better time to settle in with a good book—especially a book that challenges your thinking as a CEO and entrepreneur, possibly inspiring some new directions for your company in 2016. We asked our partners for some recommendations of books about business that have made a difference in their leadership and management thinking. Here are the some of their responses.

Newport partners have decades of experience running companies. We interviewed a number of them and asked them to articulate some basic principles about management that their experience has taught them.