If you enjoy reading business books, here is a list of recommended business books…from one of the greatest business writers of our time, Tom Peters:

His #1 book recommedation?

#1, no contender for the spot, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

It starts this way: “This book is about luck disguised and perceived as non-luck (that is, skills) and more generally randomness disguised and perceived as non-randomness. It manifests itself in the shape of the lucky fool, defined as a person who benefited from a disproportionate share of luck but attributed his success to some other, generally precise reason.” “We underestimate the share of randomness in just about everything, a point that might not merit a book—except when it is the specialist who is the fool of all fools.” “Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”

Link to complete list of Tom Peter’s book recommendations

I think this list is incredibly interesting…it sheds light on where a great business mind has received a great deal of his education.

Category : General Business | Posted by Kyle Hunt

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