4 book recommendations from Emma Grede, the first Black woman investor on ‘Shark Tank’ (via CNBCMakeIt)
is one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs — and the book contains the principles he developed, refined and used for more than 40 years.3. 'Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't'Can people turn mediocrity into superiority, even if the odds are stacked against them?
That's a burning question for author Jim Collins and his 21-person research team. Together, they read 6,000 articles and generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts in a five-year study of company performances.a set of elite companies that had made the transition from "good to great" in terms of their stock price significantly outpacing the market average — and then sustained that performance for at least fifteen years.
"It's just a mind-expanding kind of book I think anyone should read," Grede says. "Not just those in business.""Less on the business track," Grede says. "But I also think it's important especially given the moment and the context that we're in as a country right now." "Caste" posits that an unspoken caste system has shaped America and examines how lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions — based on race, class, bloodlines, stigma and more.500 CEOs and leaders copies of "Caste," which compares America's racial hierarchy to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany.
"This is a book for all of humanity and it is necessary for people who are leaders in our country to understand the origins of our discontent and what caste really means," Oprah said on ""[Caste] is probably one of the most important books of our time," says Grede. "And I would recommend that everybody read [it]."