Creativity, Inc.
Good to Great
The Lean Startup
Blue Ocean Strategy
Leaders Eat Last
The Innovator's Dilemma
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Lean In
The Power of Habit
Four Thousand Weeks
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The Power Law
In The Power Law, journalist Sebastian Mallaby tells the history of venture capital and the math that drives it. Returns are not normally distributed. A small number of wild successes dominate everything else, which forces investors to chase asymmetry, build soft moats like brand and network, and stay in the game across cycles. Practical reading for anyone allocating capital under high uncertainty.
The Man Who Solved the Market
In The Man Who Solved the Market, Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman tells the story of Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund whose Medallion Fund produced what may be the greatest investment record in history. The book details how a team of mathematicians and physicists built a quantitative system that beat the market for three decades. Eye-opening reading for anyone curious about how systematic investing actually works.
How Soccer Explains the World
In How Soccer Explains the World, Franklin Foer takes readers on a global tour to show how the world's favorite sport is a powerful lens for understanding globalization's complex effects. From the religious wars of Scottish football to the gangster-nationalists of the Balkans and the oligarchs of the English Premier League, Foer argues that soccer, rather than erasing local identities, has become a primary stage where ancient tribes and modern economies clash.