BOOK SPECIAL..... Back to business

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There's no such thing as too much knowledge. So, pick up these seven books to help widen your business horizons

1 Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre

First published in 1923, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a fictional but highly accurate look at life on Wall Street in the early 20th century. For decades, investors have remarked at how it has stood the test of time, and former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan called it “a font of investing wisdom“.

2 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his foundational work in behavioral economics, the blending of psychology with economics. His 2013 book is an accessible introduction to his ideas that explore how humans do not always make rational decisions, and are driven by biases and impulses. Nassim Taleb said it's as worldchanging as Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.

3 Good to Great by Jim Collins

Collins Over the course of five years, Jim Collins and his research team studied 28 elite corporations to determine what separated great from merely good companies. The resulting management book is the opposite of anecdotal fluff prevalent in the genre. And it's made an impact since it was first published in 2001 -Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman, Vodafone chairman Gerard Kleisterlee, and EY senior part ner Mark Otty name it as a ma jor influence.

4 Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed

First published while the world was living with the effects of the last financial crisis, Lords of Finance argued that the heads of central banks who met after the first World War had a larger impact on the Great Depression than had previously been understood. Ahamed shows that a few people can indeed have world-changing power, and that at this level human fallibility can be devastating. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010.

5 The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

American energy company Enron was among the most highly praised companies in the world in the late 1990s. Then, in late 2001, an intricate conspiracy of fraud and insider trading at the very top of the company unraveled, and the $63 billion company declared bankruptcy. Drawing upon hundreds of interviews, McLean and Elkind give a definitive account of what went down. Warren Buffett, not one to liberally praise business books, called it “well-reported and well-written“.

6 Barbarians at the Gate' by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

Gate is a genre-defining book, proving that in the right hands, a business story that may seem too complex or arcane to anyone outside of Wall Street can become a gripping and relevant tale. Burrough and Helyar take extensive reporting on the contentious $25 billion leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in 1988 and make it read like an epic drama about limit less greed at the expense of employees. It is considered the best business book ever written by former GE CEO Jeff Immelt, The New York Times and CNBC reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin , and Market Watch columnist Jon Friedman.

7 The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

The Innovator's Dilemma is required reading for Silicon Valley, and received praise from the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, explains that the more successful a company becomes, the more difficult it is for it to innovate. Since it was first published in 1997, it has inspired countless entrepreneurs to disrupt industries, as well as .avoid being disrupted once they achieve success

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