Ginni Rometty worked her way up through IBM from an entry level position to CEO and chairman during her 40-year career. In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World, she shares insights from her years of advocating for the good of the company and its stakeholders.
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Book Review: My Life In Full by Indra Nooyi
We wonder why our society’s leaders don’t share our values. Yet we make it extremely difficult for those leadership positions to be occupied by women, immigrants, people of color, engaged parents, etc. Indra Nooyi, who became CEO of PepsiCo as an Indian-American woman, has been trying to do something about it.
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Book Review: Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain is a multi-generational biography of the Sackler family; it is an expose on one of the biggest business and medicine scandals of the last few decades; and it is a warning about how the tools that the government and our scientific and academic institutions can be manipulated to do people harm for profit.
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Book Review: Active Value Investing
I read a lot of books about finance and investing, and this is one of the best. I seriously put this on par with Benjamin Graham (The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters), and John Mihaljevic (The Manual of Ideas). It is that good.
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