Bernard Arnault is a French billionaire businessman and art collector, serving as the chairman and CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury-goods company.
6 books on the list
Good To Great
Telling what makes a good company great, the book irons out years of research into one meaningful framework. It points at such key drivers as leadership humility, discipline and technology being leveraged to create growth rather than provoke it. At its argument's core is a conceptualization it dubs the "Hedgehog Principle" concentrating on what a company can be best at. Besides using real-world examples, it pinpoints how disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action could carry an organization to being genuinely great from just being good. This book is a roadmap for sustained excellence and long-term success.
Creativity, Inc.
Imagine just being at the helm of a company where innovation and creativity reign supreme. This New York Times bestselling book gives a tour behind the scenes of Pixar Animation Studios and unlocks the secrets to success. The book concentrates on how culture can be created, which is supportive of creativity and innovation. Basing on the experiences of one of the co-founders, it provides great lessons and instructs on how to manage teams, eliminate barriers, and support an environment for new ideas. This is a must-read for anyone looking to unlock the creative potential within their organization or team.
Blue Ocean Strategy
In this groundbreaking work, authors show how the most successful companies find their customers. They argue that success doesn't come from battling competitors in "red oceans" of bloody competition, but from creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for innovation. With persuasive examples and analytical rigour, they show how companies break out of the red ocean of bloody competition to create their own blue oceans, and thereby make the competition irrelevant. This book helps present a systematic plan that businesses can use to identify and seize these opportunities – fundamentally shifting how business is carried out.
Made to Stick
Recommended by: Bernard Arnault
Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that catch on and stick in the mind. In such bright anecdotes and a clear analysis, according to which concepts remain in memory, they disassemble these principles. Practical tools filled this book for everyone to be able to communicate more effectively so that their messages are, if not understood, then certainly remembered and long-lasting.
The Luxury Strategy
Recommended by: Bernard Arnault
World-renowned experts on brand strategy Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien offer a unique and comprehensible look into the highly secretive world of luxury brand management. They identify the differential value that makes luxury brands different: exclusivity, craftsmanship, and a rising level of quality so high that they command a premium price. It is mostly helpful for readers who try to understand what the mechanisms of luxury business, in general, are. Navigating so subtile and complicated dynamics as to know how to save the reputation of a brand on changing markets.
Selling Luxury
Recommended by: Bernard Arnault
It aims at offering views of the world relating to selling expensive luxury articles, with an emphasis on the marketing of luxury goods. In this book, Lent and Tour share unique strategies that create value and craft experiences that appear to connect better with the affluent consumer, focussing more on exclusivity and personalisation.
Favorite books by Bernard Arnault's that he mentioned in his speeches and interviews.