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Tim Macdonell's Top Book Recommendations

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You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra—an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school—shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think... more
Recommended by Tim Macdonell, Nadia Al Sheikh, and 2 others.

Tim MacdonellCompleted this book yesterday and listened to Habits for Happiness by Dr Tim Sharp in between during some down time over the weekend. Some very valuable thought process in regard to being in a leadership role and how you must approach things differently. https://t.co/8Yv0yJT85y (Source)

Nadia Al SheikhIt’s a very simple & interesting read. It takes a different approach about reaching your goals and dreams it pushes you to not just prepare & work on yourself but to put yourself out there & interact with leaders to learn from them & to figure out what kind of leader you are. (Source)

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Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives goes to the heart of the arcane and largely misunderstood world of derivative finance and makes it accessible to everyone--even novice readers. Marthinsen takes us behind the scenes, into the back alleyways of corporate finance and derivative trading, to provide a bird's-eye view of the most shocking financial disasters of the past quarter century. The book draws on real-life stories to explain how financial derivatives can be used to create or to destroy value. In an approachable, non-technical manner, Marthinsen brings these financial... more
Recommended by Tim Macdonell, and 1 others.

Tim MacdonellA little slow to start 2020, but managed to get #TheRiskTakers under my belt as the first book of the new year. Some great stories from some very succesful entrepreneurs. #KnowledgeIsPower https://t.co/0oIoM0Fm6D (Source)

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