Related to this thread about me getting a getAbstract subscription, I thought I would seek out the wisdom of GoA for recommended “reading” from
It looks like it has books, articles, and podcasts that cover business, finance, economics, etc.
Digging through my reviews:
The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker
The Classics [not a single book, but a concept]
PArt 1: https://www.soa.org/globalassets/assets/library/newsletters/stepping-stone/2010/october/stp-2010-iss40-campbell.pdf
Part 2:
https://www.soa.org/globalassets/assets/library/newsletters/stepping-stone/2012/november/stp-2012-campbell-iss48.pdf
I specifically name: Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War, The Iliad, Plutarch’s Lives
Oh, and Dickens:
Back to regular business books:
Built to Last, by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras – which I found actually held up, 20 years after its initial publication
Miss Manners Minds Your Business, by Judith Martin
and Nicholas Ivor Martin – on business etiquette in the U.S.
I bought a Letitia Baldridge Guide to Executive Manners when I started out several decades ago (on the assumption that I would one day be an executive… alas).
The knowledge, stuck in my head, is still helpful, even in this day and age. Well, except for the Business formal/casual advice, which today is sweats.
New book on new manners for new times:
Maybe it allows for Irish goodbyes, or saying you’ll show up when you never planned to, 'cause kids these days.