Recommended Reading
A selection of good books on the broader topic of risk. There are many wonderful books that can help you better understand the world you operate in and how this creates opportunity and risk.
Books worth reading (with clickable links to Amazon.com)
- The Black Swan – Nassim Taleb (entertaining and thought provoking) : A great read on the unpredictable
- Exponential Organisations – Salim Ismael : A highly acclaimed read on modern organisations
- The big short – Michael Lewis : An insiders account of the origins of the global financial crisis
- Dark Market : Cyberthieves and Cybercops – Misha Glenny : All about the risks in the digital age and how to manage it
- Fundamentals of enterprise risk management – John Hampton : How major corporations tackle ERM
- Think, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman : A well written book that exposes how humans make decisions
- The crash of 2008 and what it means – George Soros : An analysis of the causes of an lasting effects of the financial crisis
- This changes everything – Naomi Klein : A difficult read about the long term implications of climate change
- Six Degrees – Mark Lynas : A good analysis of the science behind and implications of a warmer world
- The lean strartup – Eric Ries : A bestseller on how to build lasting businesses from the ground up
- The tipping point – Malcolm Gladwell : A good summary of the factors that are required to create the tipping point
- The art of War (lessons in strategy) : Ancient but brilliant. Lessons from a military genius
- Joseph Schumpeter and dynamic economical change – l. Moss : A summary of Schumpeter’s thinking on creative destruction
- Screw it Let’s do it – Richard Branson : A fresh look at capitalism in the 21st century