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crime ● true story ● banks
Recommendation 4 / 5
The Spider Network is an interesting story about one of the greatest manipulation in financial history conducted by a math genius and some business leaders of the banking sector...
money ● banks ● true story
Recommendation 4 / 5
The Last Tycoons tells a story of Lazard, a financial advisory and asset management firm. It is especially the history of the incredible people who worked there, at an...
macroeconomics ● money ● politics
Recommendation 4 / 5
The value of everything by Mariana Mazzucato is about value creation and value extraction, making versus taking, which is a subtitle of the book. We currently have corporate...
technology ● economy ● future
Recommendation 4 / 5
Gig economy is about the use of assets in different ways. I can give two quick examples of that. Think about Uber which allows people to turn their private car into a...
inspirtion ● change ● motivation
Recommendation 5 / 5
There are thousands of shallow books speaking about how to take action, how to find courage and motivation and so on, but this book is really worth reading. At least you should know the rule as it has a scientific background...
biography ● inspirtion ● company
Recommendation 5 / 5
“Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.” Even though the quote comes from Larry Page, it greatly encapsulates the life of Elon Musk portrayed in the book...
technology ● internet ● civilisation
Recommendation 5 / 5
The world is flat talks about globalisation and it goes through 3 phases of this process. The period between 1492 and 1800 he calls globalisation 1.0. It’s a period fuelled by muscle power and...
inspirtion ● leadership ● motivation
Recommendation 5 / 5
The new one minute manager, written by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, is a revision of the co-authors’ The one minute manager, originally published in 1982. Ken Blanchard is...
inspirtion ● leadership ● strategy
Recommendation 5 / 5
The CEO Next Door is based on over 10 years of research into 18,000 professional reports of pre-selected candidates, high-level jobs mostly in billion-dollar companies. The book focuses on...
