Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup John Carreyrou
'I couldn’t put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill Gates, '5 books I loved in 2018'.Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018.The full inside story of the breathtaking r...
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco Bryan Burrough , John Helyar
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.” —New York Times Book ReviewA #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate...
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: The International Bestseller Carlo M. Cipolla
Sort the intelligent from the stupid, and the helpless from the bandits ahead of the 2019 general election.'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times'This is brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be RightThe five laws that confirm our worst fe...
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the...
The Big Score: The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley Michael Shawn Malone
An investigative, behind-the-scenes report on the semiconductor/computer industry traces the history of Silicon Valley and the electronics industry, and the entrepreneurs, innovations, industrial espionage, drug scene, and other realities of Silicon ...
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it w...
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcolm Gladwell
The landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making -- from #1 bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell.
In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point , Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world...
Boom and Bust: Financial Cycles and Human Prosperity Alex J. Pollock
While the recent economic crisis was a painful period for many Americans, the panic surrounding the downturn was fueled by an incomplete understanding of economic history. Economic hysteria made for riveting journalism and effective political theate...
Breakdown of Will George Ainslie
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged...
Built to Last James Charles Collins and Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor even is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more impo...
Buyout: The Insider's Guide to Buying Your Own Company Rick Rickertsen and Robert E. Gunther
Successful management buyouts (MBOs) are the pinnacle of business success today and a great way to earn an ever-increasing stake in the American dream. Buyout provides managers and executives with the necessary tools and strategies for leading a comp...
