A4G’s recommended books

As you know, I have talked a lot about some of the business books that we recommend reading while you have a bit more time on your hands. In fact, before we all went our separate ways from the office, I coerced all my team to take at least one of the books from the library with them!

There are of course many books that you could read which will help you develop and grow your business once normality returns but here’s a selection of some of the ones recommended by my team:

• The Big Short – Michael Lewis 
• The Art of Thinking Clearl – Rolf Dobelli  (read 7 times) 
• Risk and Fear 
• Exposure Inside the Olympus Scandal 
• Liars Poker  Michael Lewis 
• Maxwell The Outside  – Tom Bower
• The Great Crash 1929 – John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Conveyancing  fraud – Michael Joseph
• The Japanese Conspiracy – Marvin J Wolf
• Do you Sincerely want to be rich – Charles Raw. Bruce Page, Godfrey Hodgson
• Inside the nudge unit – David Halpern
• Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
• The Barcelona Way – unlocking the DNA of a winning culture – Damian Hughes
• The five dysfunctions of a team – Patrick Lencioni
• The armchair economist  – Economics and everyday life – Steven E Lansberg
• How to franchise your business – Brian Duckett
• Beyond the bricks – the inside story of how everyday investors found financial freedom –  William Mallinson
• The outsiders – 8 unconventional CEOs
• The end of alchemy – money banking and the future of the global economy – Mervyn King
• The snowball – Alice Shroeder
• The Winning Mindset – what sport can teach us about great leadership – Damian Hughes
• Leading – Alex Ferguson
• Start with why – how great leaders inspire everyone to take action
• The complete idiot’s guide to game theory
• Winning – Clive Woodward
• Black box thinking, the surprising truth about success – Matthew Syed
• The Undercover economist – Tim Harford
• Ask: The counterintuitive online formula to discover exactly what customers want
• The score takes care of itself – Bill Walsh
• The seven signs of ethical collapse
• Running lean
• The lean startup
• How to win friends and influence people
• Social media is bullshit
• Mastermind – how Dave Brailsford reinvented the wheel
• Moneyball – Michael Lewis
• Catastrophe – the story of Bernard Madoff the man who swindled the world
• Crisis Economics – a crash course in the future of finance
• The new Machiavelli – Jonathan Powell