Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in by Roger Fisher and William Ury was released all the way back in 1981 and has become an absolute must-have for any novice inquisitive about the art and science of negotiation. Despite its age, the book still remains relevant in today’s industry, but it must be Read More …

Although it’s definitely not the newest of releases (first published in 1936), How to Win Friends and Influence People still holds rank as an ageless bestseller. Whether you work in sales or not, the advice in this book is still guaranteed to be beneficial for everyone. Dale Carnegie’s principles have spanned the decades (technically, they Read More …

A Random Walk Down Wall Street is a must-have for anyone wanting to work in the stock market. In a time of market volatility and economic uncertainty, when high-frequency traders and hedge fund managers seem to tower over the average investor, the Burton G. Malkiel’s classic and gimmick-free investment guide A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Read More …

Ian Fraser has spotted stories, uncovered scandals and written about them in a detailed and accessible way. Introducing the definitive account of the Royal Bank of Scotland fiasco “Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank That Broke Britain“. Ian Fraser ‘s book is an engaging, if in some ways infuriating, tale of how self-serving bank executives systematically Read More …

If you’ve just watched the new Martin Scorsese ‘Wolf of Wall St’ film you would’ve seen that Belfort ran boiler rooms very well, training not Harvard Finance graduates, but basically teenage street punks to be ultra-persuasive, killer closers. Netting himself circa $50 million a year.

This business classic written by long-time New Yorker contributor John Brooks is an insightful and engaging you-are-there look into corporate and financial life in America, and now having been re-released in digital format, you can experience the enchanting tales on the ‘small screen’. From Wall Street to Main Street, John Brooks, brings to life in vivid fashion Read More …

The markets have evolved at breakneck speed during the past decade, and change has accelerated dramatically since 2007’s disastrous regulatory “reforms.” An unrelenting focus on technology, hyper-short-term trading, speed, and volume has eclipsed sanity: markets have been hijacked by high-powered interests at the expense of investors and the entire capital-raising process. A small consortium of Read More …

The best-selling book from Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-first Century won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2014. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of Read More …

Michael Lewis Flash Boys has a spellbinding talent for finding emotional dramas in complex, highly technical subjects. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Michael Lewis writes that, before he began working on Flash Boys, he had little interest in Read More …

Sure to be a revelation to even the savviest financial professional, Backstage Wall Street: An Insider’s Guide to Knowing Who to Trust, Who to Run From, and How to Maximize Your Investments is a brutally honest look at the investment business from a veteran who’s seen it all. “Reformed” Wall Street insider Joshua M. Brown offers clear Read More …