I gravitate towards books that deal with our minds, how they work, how they fall short, how their functioning can be optimized. Whether it's Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer, How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer or others, I am captivated by the scientific forays into the human mind. Drive deals with motivation. I'm an economics major who recognizes the impracticality and inefficacy of economic modeling and forecasting, but fixates on incentives and the behavioral aspect of economics. Daniel Pink shows that incentives, while undeniably strong and mostly underutilized and forgotten, can produce results contrary to intuition and can hinder motivation. His findings are robust (not entirely original, but written and presented better than most) and compellingly shown. He gives many suggestions on how to leverage innate human behavior to create environments of massive motivation and production. As someone rooted firmly in the business world with an ever present eye to leadership and entrepreneurship, these lessons join the many already filed away in the recesses of my mind.
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Book Review: Drive
I gravitate towards books that deal with our minds, how they work, how they fall short, how their functioning can be optimized. Whether it's Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer, How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer or others, I am captivated by the scientific forays into the human mind. Drive deals with motivation. I'm an economics major who recognizes the impracticality and inefficacy of economic modeling and forecasting, but fixates on incentives and the behavioral aspect of economics. Daniel Pink shows that incentives, while undeniably strong and mostly underutilized and forgotten, can produce results contrary to intuition and can hinder motivation. His findings are robust (not entirely original, but written and presented better than most) and compellingly shown. He gives many suggestions on how to leverage innate human behavior to create environments of massive motivation and production. As someone rooted firmly in the business world with an ever present eye to leadership and entrepreneurship, these lessons join the many already filed away in the recesses of my mind.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Reading List
I won’t make my goal of 100 books read this year, due mostly to my studying for the CFA. Here’s my current list of books to read.
Fooled By Randomness-Nassim Taleb
Traffic, Why We Drive The Way We Do-Tom Vanderbilt
The Long Tail, The Revolution Changing Small Markets Into Big Business-Chris Anderson
Sway, The Irresistible Pull Of Irrational Behavior-Ori and Rom Brafman
The Drunkard’s Walk, How Randomness Rules Our Lives-Leonard Mlodinow
Free Agent Nation-Daniel Pink
Who Moved My Cheese-Spencer Johnson
The Music Of Chance-Paul Auster
Animal Spirits, How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, and Why It Matters For Global Capitalism-George Akerlof
Descartes’ Error, Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain-Antonio Damasio
Rigged-Ben Mezrich
Zeitoun-Dave Eggers
Nudge, Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness-Richard Thaler
Understanding Wall Street-Jeffrey Little and Lucien Rhodes
The Intelligent Investor-Benjamin Graham
Unconventional Success, A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment-David Swensen
The Little Book That Beats The Market-Joel Greenblatt
How To Win The Loser’s Game-Charles Ellis
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