The First Key to Becoming a Successful Strategist: Gaining Guidance from Reading the Right Books

If you are interested in amplifying the scope of your strategic expertise, we highly recommended the reading of the following books:

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
• The Physics of Wall Street
• The Effective Executive (This is a great book for business management conscious strategist by Peter Drucker.)
• Seven Military Classics of Ancient China (Sawyer's translation)
• The Art of War (Sawyer's translation)
• Six Secret Teachings (Sawyer's translation)
• The Tao of Deception
• Strategies For The Human Realm  (Sawyer's translation on Li Quan's Tai-Pai Yin Ching)
• Sun Tzu The Art of Warfare (Ames translation)
• Sun Bin: The Art of Warfare (Ames translation)
• Military Methods  (Sawyer's translation of Sun Bin's essay on warfare)
• The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• The Water Margin
• Cook Ding's Kitchen's books on martial art philosophy
• The Protracted Game (Understanding the gist of Chinese military mindset) 
• Basketball for the Player, the Fan and the Coach (by Red Auerbach)
• Yi Jing ( The Chinese Oracle)
• Li Chi Ching 
• Dao De Jing (The gist of Daoism)
• Zhuang Zi (Another view of Daoism)
• My 60 Memorable Games (Robert James Fischer)
• The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Roger Penrose)
• Perl Best Practices (for old school programmers)

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