Malcolm Gladwell

"What is your essential reading / audio list for 2019? Good to Great, by Jim Collins The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Dr. Stephen R. Covey The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt The Psychology of Achievement, by Brian Tracy Catch 22, by Joseph Heller Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell Shoe Dawg, by Phil Knight The Prince, by Machiavelli Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth about Success – And Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes, by Matthew Syed 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works—A True Story, by Dan Harris After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, by Rob Reid How I Built This, by Guy Raz (NPR podcast series) Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life, by Geshe Michael Roach Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John le Carré The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand"

"Further Reading Auletta, Ken. The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1997. Auletta, Ken. Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. New York: Random House, 1991. Bernstein, Peter L. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Biggs, Barton. Hedge hogging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2006. The Buffett Partnership. Collection of Reports to Investors, 1958–1969. Byrne, John A. The Whiz Kids: The Founding Fathers of American Business and the Legacy They Left Us. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 1993. Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Cunningham, Lawrence. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1997. Drucker, Peter F. Adventures of a Bystander. New York: Harper and Row, 1978. Ellis, Charles D., ed. (with James R. Vertin). Classics: An Investor’s Anthology. Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1989. Gladwell, Malcom. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2008. Gleick, James. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Graham, Katharine. Personal History. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1997. Hagstrom, R.G. The Warren Buffett Portfolio. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999. Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 1972. Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011. Kaufman, Peter D. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. Los Angeles: PCA Publications, 2005. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Lawrence, Mary Wells. A Big Life (in Advertising). New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Lowe, Janet. Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. Lowenstein, Roger. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist. New York: Random House, 1995. Mauboussin, Michael. More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Poundstone, William. Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. Press, Eyal. Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012. Preston, Richard. American Steel. New York: Avon Books, 1992. Pruitt, Bettye H. The Making of Harcourt General: A History of Growth Through Diversification 1922–1992. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. Roberts, John. The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Robichaux, Mark. Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2002. Skildelsky, Robert. John Maynard Keynes, Volume 2: The Economist as Savior, 1920–1937. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Swensen, David F. Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment. New York: Free Press, 2005. Tedlow, Richard S. Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built. New York: Harper Business, 2001. Train, John. The Money Masters. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. Index Note: Page numbers followed by f refer to figures; page numbers followed by t refer to tables."

"Acquire unique intuition: The unconscious mind The Creative Brain by Nancy C. Andreasen. An accomplished psychiatrist with an interest in literary and scientific geniuses extols the unconscious mind and tells us how to be more creative. Enjoyable and most instructive. Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy D. Wilson. Excellent – perhaps the most useful single book by a neuroscientist on how to use the power of the unconscious mind. Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow. Witty and wise – what the new unconscious teaches us. Incognito by David Eagleman. Also excellent. The Brain by David Eagleman. A more popular version of the book above, but does not appeal to me quite as much. Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer. How to make decisions better and more easily. A brilliant celebration of simplicity. The Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther. Splendid section on intuition. The rest of the book is fascinating too. The Luck Factor by Max Gunther, pages 133–155. Some overlap with the book above, but also excellent. The subtitle encapsulates the message – Why some people are luckier than others and how you can become one of them. The Genie Within by Harry W. Carpenter. Not up to date scientifically, but more useful than many of the books by expert neuroscientists. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy. As above – very useful. The New Unconscious edited by Ran R. Hassin, James S. Uleman, and John A. Bargh. A collection of academic papers. In my opinion numbers 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19 are the most interesting and useful. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Very good stories and a few excellent points."

"Malcolm Gladwell says you can’t understand Bill Gates’s success without understanding his fortunate personal context: he grew up in a good family, went to a private school equipped with a computer lab, and counted Paul Allen as a childhood friend. But perhaps you can’t understand Malcolm Gladwell without understanding his historical context as a Boomer (born in 1963)."