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Emory University Professor Dr. Jagdish Sheth Shares his Favorite Authors

Dr. Jagdish Sheth
Dr. Jagdish Sheth

I asked Dr. Jagdish Sheth for a list of the 10 books or authors that had influenced him the most during his life. Not only is he unbelievably well-read, he is the author of numerous books. Dr. Sheth is a world-renown Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, GA and teaches on consumer psychology, branding strategy, marketing and geopolitics. Here are the authors and books that have influenced him the most. As he mentioned “As you can see I like historical scholarly books or books that are on future trends.”

1. Abraham Maslow

Book: A Theory of Human Motivation

2. John Naisbitt

Book: Megatrends

3. Peter Drucker

Book: The Effective Executive

4. Jared Diamond

Book: Guns, Germs, and Steel

5. Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw

Book: The Commanding Heights

6. Leon Festinger

Book: When Prophecy Fails

7. George Caspar Homans

Book: The Human Group

8. Clark Hull

Book: Principles of Behavior: An introduction to Behavior Theory

9. Charles Osgood

Book: The Osgood Files and others

10. Several Biographies

Book: Gandhi, Lincoln, Lenin , Karl Marx, Plato, Aristotle and others

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