Kore Bookshelf – Our Winter Selection
The Christmas season is approaching fast and books are a gift you can open again and again. Today we provide our Kore Partners winter shortlist of business books. This list is based on selected readings published in 2021 on trending topics. We hope you enjoy our selection.
Business decisions
1. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (by Adam Grant). In this book, Adam Grant masterfully explores how we cling to what we already know and close ourselves to the new and how there is another set of cognitive skills that are even more relevant: the skills of rethinking and unlearning.
2. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein). Written by the all-star team of Nobel Prize winner, ex-McKinsey and behavioural economist, this book deals with human error, underlying aspects about errors affecting our judgment and how to sanitize “noise” as not to interfere in our decision making.
3. Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future (by Saul Griffith). An engineer, inventor and serial entrepreneur, Griffith lays down a blueprint to electrify everything with a vision to fight climate change whilst creating millions of new jobs and healthier environment.
Technology
4. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan). Embodying a collaboration between a science fiction author and a former head of Google, this book tells stories about how Artificial Intelligence and other technologies will change the way we learn, work, communicate, and play.
5. The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher). This book joins forces of a 98-year-old diplomat, former Google chief executive and an M.I.T. professor, to provide a go-to insight on the potential of AI in all areas of human enterprise, such as health care, economics, life sciences, law, governance and military.
6. The Blockchain Innovator's Handbook (by Conor Svensson). This book provides a guide on the fundamentals of blockchain technology from the business perspective and explains how blockchain solutions may be used to drive business transformation.
Geostrategy
7. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (by Ray Dalio). From a legendary investor and author of Principles, this book examines the most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different but also similar to those that happened before.
8. To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change (by Alfred W. McCoy). This provides the long perspective of seven centuries of empires and changing world orders. At a time when American empire maybe giving way to a new world order, the world history and its twits are essential reading.
Business Biographies
9. The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power (by Max Chafkin). This biography is a revealing portrait of one of the men’s responsible for creating the ideology of what we come to define Silicon Valley.
10. Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire (by Brad Stone). This book presents a portrait of the evolution and ambitions of Bezos and how a retail upstart called Amazon became one of the most powerful entities in the global economy.
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