Category: Strategy
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Sophisticated Investor changes a blow to Aussie Innovation
The use of a deeply flawed asset test which does not truly measure an investor’s financial sophistication has created a flawed market dynamic
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Elon Musk
Author: Ashlee Vance File under: Big Ideas, Strategy Executive Summary: Elon Musk, is a biography of the eponymous eccentric industrialist up to 2015. The book chronicles his early life, business success and challenges that he has surmounted to build Tesla and SpaceX into the household names they are today. Often…
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Dealing With China
Author: Henry M. Paulson Jr File under: Strategy Executive Summary: Dealing With China by former US Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. is a narrative retelling of Mr Paulson’s history of working with China during his time with both Goldman Sachs and later as part of the Bush Whitehouse. This…
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The Black Swan
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb File under: Philosophy, Big Ideas, Strategy Executive Summary: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NNT), is book two in his five volume series called Incerto, which also includes including Fooled by Randomness, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game. This book is probably the most interesting…
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Principles
Author: Ray Dalio File under: Learning, Strategy Executive Summary: Ray Dalio grew Bridgewater Associates from a small two person operation in his bedroom one of the worlds premier fund managers. Rather than purely a narrative history, “Principles” focuses on the principles that he credits with his success in both life…
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Turning the Flywheel
Author: Jim Collins File under: Acceleration, Strategy Executive Summary: Turning the Flywheel is the accompaniment to the very good From Good To Great by Jim Collins. The focus of the monograph is on the concept of a flywheel – a metaphor Jim Collins uses to illustrate how very successful businesses…
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