30 books overall; 9 books read in the last year; 1 book an average of 0 books each month.
Planned books (4):
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most by Douglas Stone
- Co-Opetition : A Revolution Mindset That Combines Competition and Cooperation : The Game Theory Stra by Adam M. Brandenburger
- Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
Current books (2):
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The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and S by Michael A. Cusumano
Recent books (24):
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins by Tom Perkins
- Aligning the Stars by Jay W. Lorsch
- The One Thing You Need to Know: … About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Su by Marcus Buckingham
- Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
- Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard
- The Emerging Markets Century: How A New Breed of World-Class Companies is Overtaking the World by Antoine van Agtmael
- The Dhandho Investor: The Low - Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places by Michael J. Mauboussin
- The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets by Group of authors
- The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don\’t by Kenneth L. Fisher
- Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
- Just One Thing: Twelve of the World\’s Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can\’t Overloo by John Mauldin
- The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt
- Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality by Terry Burnham
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition by Burton G. Malkiel
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Ram Charan
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack Expanded Second Edition. The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T Munger
- Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein
- Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe
- Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in a Smoke and Mirrors Market by John F. Mauldin


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