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How To Win Friends and Influence People. The 48 Laws of Power (do not take this to heart, just read and understand how they CAN apply in situations).
EDIT: Word, and also Persuasion by Ciandali (spelling is wrong) is a great book.
Check out Robert Cialdini's latest book Pre-Suasion, just released last month.
***influence people
Look at this GMAT fiction list. Even if you're a native speaker, this will help improve your verbal score.
That's a pretty good list
Monkey Business, most accurate book on IB I've encountered.
The DaVinci Code
Art of War
If you go with this one, there is a good course on the Art of War done by the Teaching Company you can get on iTunes, deepens what you get from an already powerful book
Mindset - Carol Dweck How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie (Warren Buffet took his class) Influence - Robert Cialdini Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell (story of how to win as the underdog, very inspiring)
Thinking fast and slow is very good if you are going into Equity Research. It can help prevent many of the cognitive biases associated with investment analysis.
That's great insight! For me, it's more about spotting these cognitive bias in flawed real-life market consensuses.
The Art of the Deal
Edit: this was a joke.
I have been working my way through this list in my free time. So far every book has been a fantastic read.
www.fortune.com/2016/02/23/books-mba/
Ignore all the crap at the beginning of the article, the real meat is when they describe the books and their purpose on the list.
Extreme Ownership: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-ebook/dp/B00VE4…
Also check out the War of Art: https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Winning-Creative-Battle/dp/1501260626
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar (I'm reading this now)
Both are exciting stories, and offer insight into the interpersonal dynamics at the highest levels of finance
I think the books above are mostly great suggestions on just general "how to be a better person" type stuff.
If you're looking for more finance literature: Predator's Ball and Liar's Poker
The Bond Bible. Good descriptions of the various fixed income investments and how to develop a fixed income investing strategy.
Fabozzi's Guide to fixed income securities as well
*Anything by Malcom Gladwell.
*Anything in the Freakanomics Series.
Note: as mentioned with 48 Laws of Power (also a great read) above, some of the topics in these book series will appear ridiculous, ex: in Superfreakanomics there is a section about solving global warming with tubes the pump gases into the stratosphere. The main takeaways from these types of books are the methodologies behind them and the idea of thinking outside the box.
*Gang Leader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh
*The Prince - Machiavelli
On a personal note, and without getting too political, if you're a republican read left leaning books, if you're a democrat read some of what the right puts out. Frame it to yourself as getting to "know thy enemy", if you find it hard to pick up stuff like that. Honestly, knowing what drives people on both sides of the isle and how they think, will help you with all the soft skills that you can't get by hammering away at a spreadsheet for 12+ hours a day.
I think the 48 Laws of Power are a pretty good substitute for The Prince as well if you don't want to get bogged down in 16th century literary language
Very good point.
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