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Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Julie Zhuo

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good)

Robert Kegan

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

Julia Galef

4.6 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)

Benjamin Graham , Jason Zweig , et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

COVID-19: The Great Reset

Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret

3.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude

Mark Douglas, Kaleo Griffith, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

Patrick M. Lencioni

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

Marty Cagan and Chris Jones

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

Michael Lewis

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

The Richest Man in Babylon: Original 1926 Edition

George S. Clason , Charles Conrad, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (The Strategyzer Series)

Alexander Osterwalder , Yves Pigneur , et al.

4.6 on Amazon

1 HN comments

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

4.9 on Amazon

1 HN comments

Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated

David F. Swensen

4.5 on Amazon

1 HN comments

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy

D. Michael Abrashoff and Hachette Audio

4.7 on Amazon

1 HN comments

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gen220onMay 7, 2021

Our surprisingly-terrible reaction to COVID, due to the reasons cited in this thread, made me think of an (I think) interesting book/show plot.

What if there was an epidemic virus, that, within a year +/- a few months of contraction, killed hosts over the age of X (20, 50, 70), regardless of underlying health conditions.

It raises some interesting questions! The three I’ve come up with so far:

(1) what does a society look like, without (mature, older, very old) people? What surprising positive and negative evolutions occur?

(2) how would our current societies react to the gradual onset and eventual global expansion of such a disease?

(3) if we found a cure for the disease a few (now, shorter than previously) generations later, who would take it?

It’s kind of similar Lord of the Flies, except instead of a shipwreck, it’s a disease and it happens gradually, to preexisting societies and cultures.

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