Top 10 books for CTO's full of advice, inspiration and laughs

I can highly recommend "Don’t Make Me Think!" to all software engineers regardless of their specialization.

Read books by people who have done something akin to what you are trying to do, or failing that, have been successful at doing properly hard things.

Unless you are in the business of writing self help books I'm not sure reading the books of people whose sole success is writing self help books is what you need.