Bookshelf
As you can see, I am particularly drawn to founder biographies or autobiographies; Munger once said “I am a biography nut. And I think when you’re trying to teach the great concepts that work, it helps to tie them into the lives and personalities of the people who developed them. I think you learn economics better if you make Adam Smith your friend.”
- The Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods 
- The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football 
- Private Equity 4.0: Reinventing Value Creation 
- Invent & Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos 
- Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom 
- The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin 
- The Founding Fathers: The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America 
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering 
- The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion 
- First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently 
- Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big 
- King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone 
- The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance 
- Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller 
- Washington: A Life 
- Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change 
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail 
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion 
- The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King 
- You Can Negotiate Anything: How To Get What You Want 
- Creative Cash Flow Reporting: Uncovering Sustainable Financial Performance 
- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America 
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail 
- Principles: Life and Work 
- Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader 
- Introduction to Private Equity: Venture, Growth, LBO and Turn-Around Capital 
- Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices 
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done 
- The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management 
- Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769-1799 
- 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War 
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products 
- Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination 
- Source Code: My Beginnings 
- Personal History: A Memoir 
- Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career 
- Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs 
- Nokia Oyj: n historia 1 Fuusio 
- Nokia Oyj: n historia 2 Sturm un Drang 
- Nokia Oyj: n historia 3 Globalisaatio 
- HBR'S 10 Must Reads: The Essentials 
- Harvard Business Review on Becoming a High-Performance Manager 
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco 
- American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company 
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers 
- What You Do Is Who You Are: How Top Leaders Create a Winning Culture 
- The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness 
- Buffett's Early Investments: A New Investigation Into the Decades When Warren Buffett Earned His Best Returns 
- Iacocca: An Autobiography 
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 
- Einstein: His Life and Universe 
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 
- Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building 
- Shoedog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike 
- Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times 
- Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies 
- Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's 
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 
- Venture Capital, Private Equity and the Financing of Entrepreneurship 
- Guerrilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business 
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 
- Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger 
- Copywriting Second Edition: Successful Writing for Design, Advertising and Marketing 
- Capital Allocation: The Financials of a New England Textile Mill 1955 - 1985 
- Chapter 11: Reorganizing American Businesses 
- The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway: A Chronological Analysis of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Conglomerate Masterpiece 
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist 
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention 
- Poor Charlie Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger 
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems 
- Tesla: Inventor of the Modern 
- Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed 
- Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production 
- The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts 
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High 
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies 
- The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future 
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies 
- Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance 
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors 
- Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition 
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny 
- Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the rise of the modern cable-TV business 
- The Classic Autobiography of John D. Rockefeller: Random Reminiscences of Man and Events 
- Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs 
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control 
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell 
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life 
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul 
- What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence 
- Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street 
- Transforming Nokia: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change 
- Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best People 
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt 
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most 
- Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire 
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon 
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success 
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk 
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In 
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 
- Sam Walton: Made in America 
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965 - 2000