The Galleon Summer Library 2022

So what do entrepreneurs read? Essays, comics, thrillers or management books, there is something for everyone! Review of some books exchanged during the last breaks.

• Management classics:

◦ The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz or The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni are classics, cited almost every break.

• Brand success stories:

◦ No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings (co-founder and CEO) and Erin Meyer (professors at Insead) is the best seller of the year in this field, which tells the culture behind the success story.

◦ In the same style: Shoe Dog by Phil Knight, or the story of Nike by its creator, told from its launch in 1963 when he stored his shoes in the trunk of his Plymouth to the success of the brand that became iconic.

◦ Or again Decathlon: why does it work by Matthieu Leclerq, written by the son of the founder of the sports brand.

• Foresight tests

◦ In the lead, Yuval Noah Harari's best seller 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

◦ Homo artificialis. A plea for digital humanism by surgeon Guy Vallancic, an ethical reflection on the challenges and excesses of medical robotics.

◦ 12 light years by Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, who intertwines an anticipated novel and an essay to explore the possible futures of humanity.

◦ The greatest challenge in human history in which the astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau defends the idea of degrowth seen as an opportunity.

• Committed comic books

◦ The Endless world, the comic by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain, to understand everything about growth, energies, global warming... and how everything is linked.

◦ Culottées : 15 portraits of women who did only what they wanted, by Pénélope Bagieu, remains a success.

• Philosophy makes a recipe:

◦ In praise of risk by the psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle who defends the idea that not taking risks is not daring to be free.

◦ In Praise of Weakness by Alexandre Jollien, a philosophical story that traces the conversion to philosophy of the author, disabled from birth.

◦ The encounter: a philosophy by Charles Pépin, an essay in practical philosophy on the importance of daring to meet others in order to find yourself.

• Novels... of all genres:

◦ As for novels, it's eclectic: the Galleon selection includes classics like In cold blood by Truman Capote, a “truth novel” about the wanton murder of a farming family in Kansas; or Foundation by Isaac Asimov, a sci-fi classic by the father of the genre.

◦ Contemporary novels that tell the story of today's society: Their children after them by Nicolas Matthieu, apprenticeship novel and portrait of a world far from globalization (Prix Goncourt 2018). Or again Human things by Karine Tuil: a couple one evening, 2 versions of the evening the next day. A dissection of the issue of consent and its grey areas.

• And then a literary and crazy thriller by Laurent Binet: The seventh Language function around the death of Roland Barthes: what if he had been assassinated?

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