Andrew Hill Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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In The Power of Regret, Pink contends that an Edith Piaf-like 'je ne regrette rien' approach is as damaging as wallowing in regret. But by steering between these two pitfalls, people can look at regrets as 'a photographic negative' of a better life that they could still choose to lead.

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Bad Blood by @JohnCarreyrou joins the FT Business Book Award hall of fame: all the winners, finalists and longlisted titles since 2005 #BBYA18 https://t.co/Eh4q4rH2zZ https://t.co/pTzM8lDswc

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Von Neumann was named FT "Man of the Century" in 1999 by the late, great Peter Martin, who lamented that nobody had (yet) written a brilliant book about him https://t.co/1p5xDRS0Kb

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Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT and chair of the book award judging panel, described Chip War as one of the most important books she had read this year. “The fight for semiconductors and the quest for supply chain resilience are among the biggest economic … stories of our time.”

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All this and more in this excellent little guide to Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher https://t.co/Bu8kHwJ8iq

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A bracingly direct guide about the pitfalls of strategy... Strategy is a journey “through, over, and around a sequence of challenges”, writes Rumelt, drawing on a wide range of real-life business dilemmas to illustrate how to tackle them.

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The FT Business Book Award shortlist #BBYA22 Dead in the Water (Campbell/Chellel) Influence Empire (Chen) The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order (Gerstle) The Power Law (Mallaby) Chip War (Miller) Disorder (Thompson) https://t.co/K126lRh1DO

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'Brad Stone describes @JeffBezos’s leadership style as “stern paternalism”. Others see it as single-minded aggression.' Is Amazon's founder a Bond villain, a customer-centric management genius, or both? My review of Amazon Unbound by @BradStone https://t.co/yGKcTmnPhT

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Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove was first recommended to me by none other than the then @FT editor Richard Lambert. Turns out McMurtry was also a devoted FT reader, according to this 2014 NYT interview https://t.co/6rkv4gN2uc https://t.co/Vt1EaxkK4U

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[The author] finds that [entrepreneurial drive] thrives in the most challenging of environments in refugee communities. His original telling of the stories of three Syrian women is interspersed with a wider analysis of the sheer scale of the global refugee problem.