Below are a range of foundational books to develop a career in risk. These cover topics including behaviour, career, coaching, and more.
Behaviour
- Micromotives and Macrobehavior, by Thomas C. Schelling (1978)
Career
- Range, by David Epstein (2019)
Coaching
- Coaching for Performance, By John Whitmore
Consulting
- Humble Consulting, Edgar Schein (2016)
Control
Cyber Risk
- How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk, by Douglas W. Hubbard & Richard Seiersen
- The Metrics Manifesto, by Richard Seiersen
Cyber Security
- Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know, by P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman (2014)
- Cybersecurity First Principles, by Rick Howard (published March 2023)
Economics
Enterprise Risk Management
- Enterprise Risk Management, Marchetti
Ethics, Compliance
- Humanizing Rules, Christian Hunt
Forecasting and Future
- The Next 100 Years, by George Friedman
Fraud
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Financial Shenanigans, by Howard Schilit. First published in 1993, this classic book is now into its Fourth Edition. Financial Shenanigans is an essential read to understand how companies can manipulate their financial reports through accounting gimmicks, and how to detect it. The book will equip you better to detect fraud, avoid bad investments and notice where a company’s real financial position may be misrepresented. Perfect for auditors, investors, and finance professionals.
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Smartest Guys in the Room, by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. 2003 book about the collapse of the US energy company Enron.
Hiring and team building
- Talent, by Daniel Gross and Tyler Cowen
History
- The Lessons of History, Will & Ariel Durant
Mastery
- Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990)
- Mastery, by Robert Greene (2012)
Operational Risk
Resilience
- Resilience Engineering - Concepts and Precepts; edited by Erik Hollnagel, David D. Woods, Nancy Leveson