Babes On Bay Street

QBook recommendations for young women for knowledge of business trends or for career advice

“What books would you recommend that young women read either for knowledge of business trends or for career advice? ”

 

I am mostly a non-fiction person.  In the financial sector, my two most recent must reads are Too Big to Fail by  Andrew Sorkin and The Snowball.Warren Buffet and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. The former is an incredible read and would be a great gift for anyone who works or has worked on Bay Street and the latter is a fabulous read about Warren Buffett. If you work in risk management or the regulatory side of the financial business read all the books you can about the worst financial disasters e.g. Enron. This would include books like Smartest Guys in the Room and The Collapse of Barings. For career advice everyone should read Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn.  

 

At the moment, I am reading a book by the cultural anthropologist Gillian Tett. It’s called  Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. She walks through the development of the swap market in the 80′s (which I experienced in London in 1981) and the evolution of the credit default swap market (CDS) and the securitizing  of mortgages etc….it is great.

 

Hope this helps!!