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Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal?: Avoiding the Chain of Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Organization 17 reviews
Robert Mittelstaedt
Wharton School Publishing, 2004
Insights into Failure Chains
+ Should be required reading.
+ Excellent! A real page turner and you will certainly remember its teachings for long
+ Applicable to Businesses and Society
+ How to Avoid or Break the "Chain of Mistakes"
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 381 reviews
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005
Methods of thinking and mental models worth learning
+ one of the "bestest" book ever
+ An insightful view of life
+ An Insightful Rant
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Understanding Market, Credit, and Operational Risk: The Value at Risk Approach
Linda Allen, Jacob Boudoukh, ...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
A step-by-step, real world guide to the use of Value at Risk (VaR) models, this text applies the VaR approach to the measurement of market risk, credit risk and operational risk. The book describes and critiques proprietary models, illustrating them with practical examples drawn from actual case studies. Explaining the logic behind the economics and statistics, this technically sophisticated yet ...
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk155 reviews
Peter L. Bernstein
Wiley, 1998
Great Reward
+ Excellent overview of the history of financial risk management
+ Today's hero is often tomorrow's blockhead.
+ Very Interesting!
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Beautiful Evidence 42 reviews
Edward R. Tufte
Graphics Press, 2006
A Repeat and Tackle on Previous Work
Good volume for those who may want an slightly deeper insight into visual communication. For the most part the analysis is well crafted, with stimulating insights. Sometimes a bit too repetitive, and obsessed with its own neurosis. For instance in the struggle against Power Point presentations, ...
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable338 reviews
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Random House, 2007
A must-read for a quant, but...
+ Good read, but fooled by randomness is better
+ Life is not predictable
... but Dr. Taleb goes too far by claiming that the quantitative analysts, including statisticians, are (or even were) mesmerized by the Gaussian curve or any other quantitative concept, for that matter. Even the undergrads here at Purdue are taught to understand that the mean and standard ...
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Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt19 reviews
Andrew Jaquith
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
Every security professional (or wannabe) should read this book
+ Good resource for infosec professionals
+ A necessary paradigm shift for information security
+ I liked it better than Cats!
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Inevitable Surprises14 reviews
Peter Schwartz
Gotham, 2004
"Perhaps the string that is easiest to pull first...."
+ Nowhere does Schwartz say that the US is a rogue superpower
+ good ideas about the future
+ The future in parallel permutations
+ Packed with Knowledge!
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google30 reviews
Nicholas Carr
W. W. Norton, 2009
Really two books in one
For those who know or care about the infrastructure undergirding our technology revolution, this is a must-read book. The thesis is simple: we're at a tipping point where "utility computing" will quickly replace in-house data centers. It sounds simple, but the implications are not. The first ...
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Time Based Security6 reviews
Winn Schwartau
Interpact Pr, 1999
Excellent
+ One of the few classics in its field
Nutshell review - The book describes the application of information security in terms of time; protection time, detection time, response time. This is a must read for infosec professionals.
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The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage11 reviews
Yossi Sheffi
The MIT Press, 2007
Disaster preparedness advice from an expert.
+ A must read!
+ The best one
+ A very nice effort
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Security Engineering: AGuide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems27 reviews
Ross J. Anderson
Wiley, 2008
Unique in its genre
+ Should read if ...
+ Very Good Book for Starters and Experienced Professionals
+ Textbook for class.
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Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (Agile Software Development)26 reviews
Robert L. Glass
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002
Controversial but good
+ Useful summary book to core software engineering methodology
+ Pearls of wisdom, business reader friendly
+ Insightful and Painful
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Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt19 reviews
Andrew Jaquith
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
Every security professional (or wannabe) should read this book
+ Good resource for infosec professionals
+ A necessary paradigm shift for information security
+ I liked it better than Cats!
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Inevitable Surprises14 reviews
Peter Schwartz
Gotham, 2004
"Perhaps the string that is easiest to pull first...."
+ Nowhere does Schwartz say that the US is a rogue superpower
+ good ideas about the future
+ The future in parallel permutations
+ Packed with Knowledge!
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk155 reviews
Peter L. Bernstein
Wiley, 1998
Great Reward
+ Excellent overview of the history of financial risk management
+ Today's hero is often tomorrow's blockhead.
+ Very Interesting!
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Time Based Security6 reviews
Winn Schwartau
Interpact Pr, 1999
Excellent
+ One of the few classics in its field
Nutshell review - The book describes the application of information security in terms of time; protection time, detection time, response time. This is a must read for infosec professionals.
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Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal?: Avoiding the Chain of Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Organization17 reviews
Robert Mittelstaedt
Wharton School Publishing, 2004
Insights into Failure Chains
+ Should be required reading.
+ Excellent! A real page turner and you will certainly remember its teachings for long
+ Applicable to Businesses and Society
+ How to Avoid or Break the "Chain of Mistakes"
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Security Engineering: AGuide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems27 reviews
Ross J. Anderson
Wiley, 2008
Unique in its genre
+ Should read if ...
+ Very Good Book for Starters and Experienced Professionals
+ Textbook for class.
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Understanding Market, Credit, and Operational Risk: The Value at Risk Approach
Linda Allen, Jacob Boudoukh, ...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
A step-by-step, real world guide to the use of Value at Risk (VaR) models, this text applies the VaR approach to the measurement of market risk, credit risk and operational risk. The book describes and critiques proprietary models, illustrating them with practical examples drawn from actual case studies. Explaining the logic behind the economics and statistics, this technically sophisticated yet ...
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