21/09/2021
7 books for future leaders
1. Peter Drucker: "Management challenges in the XXI century"
The book is a classic of modern management, it is devoted to the global problems that the world economy and all mankind will face in the XXI century.
2. Roger Lowenstein: "When a genius fails: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, or How one small bank created a trillion-dollar Hole"
Here is a fascinating story about the recent attempt of a group of scientists and Nobel laureates to apply a deeply rational law of large numbers in the bond market, but at the same time - a parable about human passions and vices.
3. Malcolm Gladwell: "Geniuses and outsiders: why is everything for some, and nothing for others?"
Life is unfair. Money, power, fame and success are distributed among people extremely unevenly. But why is everything for some, and nothing for others? Is it right to reduce the reasons for success only to personal qualities bestowed by nature? Malcolm Gladwell was the first to discover the hidden laws behind what always seemed to be purely the will of chance.
4. Jim Collins: "From good to great: why some companies make a breakthrough, and others do not..."
Jim Collins writes about the results of his six-year study, in which companies that made a breakthrough were compared with those who failed. All great companies have found similar elements of success, namely disciplined people, disciplined thinking, disciplined actions and the flywheel effect.
5. Brian Burrow, John Helyar: "Barbarians at the Gate: The Story of the Fall of RJR Nabisco"
This is a fascinating story about the struggle for control of RJR Nabisco that unfolded on Wall Street in October-November 1988. The book is based on more than 100 interviews that Brian Burrow and John Helyar conducted with the participants of the described events - with the president of RJR Nabisco Ross Johnson, Henry Kravis, George Roberts, Ted Forstmann, Jim Maher and other prominent businessmen of the financial world.
6. Tom Wolfe: "Bonfires of Ambition"
A book about a successful Wall Street broker. There is a finely constructed intrigue and a vividly reproduced picture of the life of modern New York. Someone dies in the fires of ambition, and someone is reborn from the ashes…
📚7. Stephen Covey: "Seven skills of highly effective people"
This book is a world super-bestseller, the No. 1 work on the topic of personal growth. She has had a great impact on the lives of millions of people around the world, including Bill Clinton, Larry King and Stephen Forbes.
