MY 2017 QUARTER 1 READING LIST
As a follow-up from my previous post, I decided to share this time around the books I will be reading during the first quarter of the year 2017. I intend to stay true to my goal of reading one book a month and by so doing, I would have read 12 new books in the year 2017. Isn’t that good for the brain? You bet it is. That said let’s check out what these 3 books will be for January, February and March.
January
More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World’s Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy
About The Book: A revolutionary approach to poverty that takes human irrationality into account-and unlocks the mystery of making philanthropic spending really work.
According to the authors research, American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. This book presents innovative and successful development interventions around the globe. Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel show how empirical analysis coupled with the latest thinking in behavioral economics can make a profound difference.
February
Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products
About The Book: Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?
Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint. Designer Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Google X. He joined Braden Kowitz and John Zeratsky at Google Ventures, and together they have completed more than a hundred sprints with companies in mobile, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, and more.
March
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
About The Book: Hailed by Time as one of the world’s hundred most influential people, Jeffrey D. Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now a classic of its genre, The End of Poverty distills more than thirty years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world’s poorest countries.
Ten years after its initial publication, The End of Poverty remains an indispensible and influential work. In this 10th anniversary edition, Sachs presents an extensive new foreword assessing the progress of the past decade, the work that remains to be done, and how each of us can help. He also looks ahead across the next fifteen years to 2030, the United Nations’ target date for ending extreme poverty, offering new insights and recommendations.
This three books will keep me busy and I can’t wait to get started! What does your reading list look like? Share yours in the comments section below and don’t forget to subscribe here. Happy reading in 2017.
