HSF Team’s #NationalBookLoversDay Reads

Looking for a good read for #NationalBookLoversDay? Here are 5 books members of our HALL Structured Finance team recommend:

1. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and It’s All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson, PH. D.
   Recommended by Renetta Gill, Closing Coordinator

“This book offers suggestions and reveals ways to help lower life’s stresses – live in the moment, trust your intuition and live each day like it might be your last. It has brought insight and put things to into perspective for me about how to tackle each day with a brighter outlook.”

2. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
   Recommended by Scott Read, Loan Officer

“This book demonstrates that, when considering risks faced in both personal and professional settings, it is of the utmost importance to build robustness to unexpected and unpredicted negative events. Rather than ignoring the potential for the unlikely, but highly impactful events, individuals and firms must identify hidden areas of vulnerability and the psychological or statistical biases that prevent us from seeing them.”

3. Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
   Recommended by Brian Mitchell, Loan Officer

“A non-fiction book about the biography of WWII hero Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific Theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a POW in three different Japanese POW camps.”

4. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
   Recommended by Sarah Hoffman, Director of Digital and Design

“The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation―each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems that drive the way we think shape our judgments and decisions.”

5. BOOM: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups by Craig Hall
   Recommended by Mike Jaynes, President

“From the perspective of a seasoned entrepreneur with more than fifty years of experience in diverse industries—from software, to real estate, to winemaking—author Craig Hall provides his expert evaluation of and solutions to the challenges facing entrepreneurs today.”