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Every book Rory Sutherland recommended on podcasts
Rory Sutherland is a frequent guest on podcasts like Modern Wisdom, where he applies behavioral economics, marketing insights, and unconventional psychology to everyday societal structures. Throughout his discussions, Sutherland recommends and evaluates several notable books that challenge traditional corporate and economic thinking. He highlights Will Guidara's Unreasonable Hospitality as a fantastic book detailing the innovations of the restaurant 11 Madison Park, using it to explore customer service and food industry excellence. Sutherland also references Gillian Tett's The Silo Effect to analyze groupthink and narrow reference points within political organizations like the Democratic Party. Additionally, he engages with Gary Stevenson's The Trading Game and John Kay's The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century to critique modern economic models, single representative agents, and the traditional shareholder value movement. By weaving these diverse texts into his commentary, Sutherland demonstrates how literature from hospitality, economics, and sociology can help explain complex human behaviors, market failures, and corporate governance issues in contemporary society.
Books recommended by Rory Sutherland
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The Silo Effect
The Silo Effect by Gillian Tett is an examination of how organizational divisions and insular thinking hinder communication and problem-solving across various institutions.
Recommended“and it's very similar to you know the the phenomenon that Jillian T spotted um I don't know if you read the silo effect have you had Jillian on the show”
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Unreasonable Hospitality
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara is a business and memoir book that outlines a philosophy of extreme customer service and operational excellence derived from the restaurant industry.
Recommended“Unreasonable hospitality. Fantastic book about a guy who ran 11 Madison Park.”
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
Discussed“it's only a small passage in John K's book The Corporation of the 21st century which is his attack largely the whole book is an attack on the idea of the shareholder value movement”
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The Trading Game
The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson is a financial memoir detailing the author's rise as Citibank's most profitable interest-rate trader and his subsequent disillusionment with extreme global wealth inequality.
Discussed“Now one thing I thought was extraordinarily interesting as an idea is you you know that chap who who was it who wrote the trading game Gary St Gary Stevenson he makes a very valid Point okay whatever whatever else you think which is that nearly all economic models use single representative agents to populate the models which is they”
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