Miller & Conley, Legacy In The Making [Book Review]
Branding has gotten a bad rap in the wake of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency. It has been conflated with egotism and narcissism. But entrepreneurs and companies work [...]
Hirsch & Mistal, Stock Trader’s Almanac 2019
The Stock Trader’s Almanac is now in its 52th edition. Not quite the track record of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which launched in 1792, but presumably a tad more [...]
Truthful Living: The First Writings Of Napoleon Hill [Book Review]
It’s hard to have missed Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, which has sold more than 100 million copies since it was published in 1937 and helped spawn the [...]
Robin Speziale, Capital Compounders [Book Review]
Robin R. Speziale, author of Market Masters, is a 31-year-old, self-taught Canadian growth investor. In this second edition of Capital Compounders: How to Beat the Market and Make Money [...]
Daniel Crosby, The Behavioral Investor [Book Review]
In 2014 Daniel Crosby, a psychologist and asset manager, co-authored the bestselling Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management and followed that up in 2016 with The Laws [...]
Warren Berger, The Book Of Beautiful Questions [Book Review]
In 2014 Warren Berger wrote A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas. He has now followed that up with The Book of Beautiful Questions: [...]
Paul Volcker, Keeping At It [Book Review]
The 91-year-old Paul A. Volcker has had a long, distinguished career, highlights of which he recalls in Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government (Public [...]
D’Aveni, The Pan-Industrial Revolution [Book Review]
Richard D’Aveni, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, has set forth a bold hypothesis. As 3-D printing or, more generally, additive manufacturing (AM) becomes increasingly sophisticated, manufacturing [...]
Adam Iqbal, Volatility [Book Review]
Adam S. Iqbal is the global head of FX Exotics and Correlation at Goldman Sachs and was formerly an FX options trader and portfolio manager at Barclays and Pimco. [...]
Scott Belsky, The Messy Middle [Book Review]
We’ve all been there. We start a project with great enthusiasm. Then, as we proceed, the goal seems farther and farther away. We have self-doubts, we are mired in [...]
Reid Hoffman & Chris Yeh, Blitzscaling [Book Review]
In my wildest fantasies I never envisage creating the next Amazon or Facebook. But I’m intrigued by the people who set out to do just that, who they are [...]
Igor Tulchinsky, The Unrules [Book Review]
In some ways Igor Tulchinsky has written an “un-book,” and it’s undoubtedly the better for it. The UnRules: Man, Machines and the Quest to Master Markets (Wiley, 2018) is [...]
Knapp & Zeratsky, Make Time [Book Review]
Another day, another self-help book that takes time away from things I should really be doing. Call it a form of distraction. But, oops, this is precisely what Jake [...]
Agrawal et al., Prediction Machines
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, all chaired professors at the University of Toronto’s [...]
Bethany McLean, Saudi America [Book Review]
Bethany McLean, the well-known financial journalist (she co-authored The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here and wrote Shaky Ground), has turned her attention to [...]
Ming Zeng, Smart Business [Book Review]
Ming Zeng’s Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals about the Future of Strategy (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018) is a thought-provoking book. Written by the chief strategy officer at [...]
Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection [Book Review]
Ken Kocienda was the principal engineer of iPhone software at Apple, so he writes with authority in Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve [...]
Meb Faber, The Best Investment Writing – Volume 2 [Book Review]
If you didn’t read the first volume of Meb Faber’s The Best Investment Writing (and you should have and of course still can), you’re got another crack at learning [...]
Tiffani Bova, Growth IQ [Book Review]
In Growth IQ: Get Smarter about the Choices That Will Make or Break Your Business (Portfolio/Penguin, 2018) Tiffani Bova regales the reader with stories about 30 companies to demonstrate [...]
John McNally, The Promise Of Failure [Book Review]
Why write? Especially when, in most cases, the writer faces rejection of one sort or another. This is the question John McNally raises in The Promise of Failure: One Writer’s [...]
Donald Hall, A Carnival Of Losses [Book Review]
I’m getting to the age that I read things about getting old. Not the advice that AARP sends out but essays by writers who are comfortably ahead of me [...]
Brian Portnoy, The Geometry Of Wealth [Book Review]
Brian Portnoy, director of investment education at Virtus Investment Partners, has written a personal finance book that goes beyond mere finance. The Geometry of Wealth: How To Shape A Life [...]