My Reading List

I've collected most of the following books from MBA reading lists I've found on the internet. I've linked to Perlego for books you can find there. Most of the other ones I bought in hard copy.

Books on this list are by no means an endorsement. To be honest, I leafed through one of the books here and thought "Yikes, I'm glad he's not around anymore" based on some extremely sexist comments.

I plan on reading through this list and stopping a book as soon as I feel I have learned what I can from it. Sometimes that means I read every page. Other times I skim, make a few notes and move on.

Here is my list in no particular order.

Currently Reading

• Organizational Culture and Leadership Edgar H. Schein, Peter A. Schein
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz

To Read

• Cost Estimation Gregory K. Mislick, Daniel A. Nussbaum
• Mathematics for Finance, Business and Economics Irénée Dondjio, Wouter Krasser
• Business Statistics Ken Black
• Fintech Pranay Gupta, T. Mandy Tham
• Investment Theory and Risk Management Steven Peterson
• Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change Julie Hodges
• Strategic Management Allen Amason, Andrew Ward
• Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition W. Chan Kim, Renée A. Mauborgne
• Build, Borrow, or Buy Laurence Capron, Will Mitchell
• Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
• Humble Inquiry, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
• The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
• The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
• Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
• The 30 Day Mba: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success (Volume 1)
• Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Cagan)
• The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (Watkins)
• Microservice Patterns (Richardson)
• How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Brooks)
• Hacking APIs: Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces (Ball)
• Architecture Modernization - Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure (Tune)
• Never Split the Difference (Voss)
• The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success (Sullivan)

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