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8 GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS. The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors That Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders By Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell Authors Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell studied more than 2,600 leaders from a database of more than 17,000 CEOs and C-suite executives. e pair pulls from more than 13,000 hours of interviews to dissect the qualities and attitudes that have proven crucial to the success of their subjects, and explore how readers can apply those lessons to their own lives. Botelho and Powell originally published their research in the May/June 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review, and they have now expanded it into a full book. In e CEO Next Door, the authors put common myths and misconceptions under the microscope, asking if you really need a perfect resume or an Ivy League education to make it to the top. "For everyone who aspires to rise through the organization and achieve their full potential, e CEO Next Door is an essential guide." Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success By Benjamin Hardy Willpower is the key to achieving the life of your dreams or is it? In Willpower Doesn't Work, author Benjamin Hardy invites readers to take another look at their assumptions about willpower, and the role it plays in shaping our lives. Willpower Doesn't Work challenges readers to abandon thoughts that you can merely "white knuckle your way to change"—willpower alone won't work if "your environment is in conflict with your goals." Hardy's book explores why you should make some your life's most significant decisions in specific settings, how to upgrade both your surroundings and your mindset, and how to surround yourself with successful people—and learn the lessons that made them successful in the first place. In the battle between nature and nurture, Hardy argues that nurture will win out if you put in the work. Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money (with a Little Help from My Dad) By Danielle Town with Phil Town In Invested, Danielle Town shares a plan for financial freedom that tracks her yearlong journey of learning how to invest. Of course, Danielle had an ace up her sleeve, as her father is investor, hedge- fund manager, and author Phil Town, (Rule #1: e Simple Strategy for Successful Investing in Only 15 Minutes a Week!), who contributes to this new work as well. Having built a successful career as a lawyer, Danielle turned to her father to help teach her the ins and outs of investing and gaining financial security. Invested shares what she learned—"how to take command of your own life and finances by choosing companies with missions that match your values, using the same gold standard strategies that have catapulted Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger to the top of the Forbes 400." What's more, she breaks it all down into 12 easy lessons. You can learn more from Danielle and Phil Town in the podcast they co-host InvestED. Advances in Financial Machine Learning By Marcos Lopez de Prado Machine learning is one of those evolutionary, disruptive technologies that hold the potential to transform industries and elements of daily life. In Advances in Financial Machine Learning, author Marcos Lopez de Prado delves into how machine learning could fundamentally alter the world of finance, as well as how to adapt their data in ways that work best with machine learning algorithms. Advances in Financial Machine Learning breaks down real-world applications and challenges and even provides code and examples to illustrate its points. Lopez de Prado invites readers to become "active users who can test the proposed solutions in their particular setting." With mountains of data to track through every step of the mortgage process, machine learning may be one of the defining new technologies to reshape the housing industry in the 21st century. at revolution could begin here.

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