It is interesting to me, that the only book Steve Jobs had on his iPad was Autobiography of a Yogi.

He knows that when we can transform ourselves from the inside, we can transform the world.  This portrays the power in personal development.  You can’t skip it, or work around it, you must work through it to be your best and transform the world.

from source:  This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures of our time. With engaging candour, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda tells the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood; his encounter with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher; ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master; and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America. Also recorded here are his meetings with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Luther Burbank, the Catholic stigmatist Therese Neumann, and other celebrated spiritual personalities of East and West. The author clearly explains the subtle but definite laws behind both the ordinary events of everyday life and the extraordinary events commonly termed ‘miracles’.