I’m a curious person. I need to know. Besides reading hundreds of news feeds daily, I try to read as many books as I can. And from the books I read in 2022, here is a list of 10 I would recommend to anyone not necessarily interested only in banking, tech or heavy metal.
The title of this one is self explanatory. The story is interesting enough, even it doesn’t cover the more recent years of Jamie Dimon – one of the most successful CEOs of one of the most successful banks in the world – which are at least as interesting as his early career.
Because this is a chronological list, one thing led to another and because LTCM and Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan have common history.
I would say that this is a mandatory reading for any business professional these days. Especially those who are working in areas where technology and innovation is changing the rules of the game.
If you want to understand the platform business models, this is a great place to start. It might need some serious revisions, with lessons to be learned after these days, when some of the most popular platforms face serious challenges.
As in case of Innovator’s Dilema listed before, this is also a mandatory reading. Especially if your professional title include the word “product” or “marketing” and you are working in industries seriously impacted by technology and internet (I wonder which industry isn’t).
Behavioural economics is also strongly related to marketing and technology and platforms. It is one of the most recent disciplines in economics and people in Silicon Valley (and not only them) are in love with it. Dan Ariely is fun to read or to listen to even when he approaches boring themes. This one is more fun to read because it is simply about life, which is never boring… Is it?
Everybody knows about Warren Buffet, right? Well, those who know about Warren Buffet, besides being the richest person in the world at some point in time, and being best friend of Bill Gates, the most richest person at one point in time and so on… they surely know about Charlie Munger who is the wingman of the most richest person in the world at some point in time… If you want to be rich, you’ll learn from this book that you need to work hard. How disappointing!
As a child grown under the communist regime who became “free” in adolescence, I was always fascinated by “America”. This is how we called USA. Reading this book is somehow a tentative to understand why is/was America so unique. I would say that if you really really want to understand America, you should read it. Or you can search for some podcasts about it instead.
It started with banking, it ends with banking. This is about LIBOR scandal, which took place after the 2008 financial meltdown, and that’s why you might know less about it. Too much (books about) scandals for me this year, I would say. But hey, banking is boring, right?
