Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times has compiled The Essential Summer Wall St. Reading List. It is worth looking at. Your knowledge and insight about managing can take a leap by reading about the successes and failures of other managers and leaders. Sorkin’s list includes real-life accounts of business success and failure, biographies and modern and ancient analyses of how to succeed and lead. Whether you work in the private sector or not, these books can be powerful aids in developing your management acumen and talent.
The list of books follow. I encourage you to check out the article for Sorkin’s explanation of why he chose each book.
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
Barbarians At The Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald
Indecent Exposure by David McClintick
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr by Ron Chernow
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham
Wishing you good reading this summer! Are you reading any good books? Let me know.