The Reading Room

Each month a member of the team reviews a book of their choosing, irrelevant of genre or publishing date.

The Innovator’s Dilemma: When new technologies cause great firms to fail

Clayton M Christensen

Published: 1997

Innovation expert Clayton Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices.

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Published: 2000

Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting the forces that shaped this century. Cryptonomicon  leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow.

Invested

Charles Schwab

Published: 2019

In this deeply personal memoir, Schwab describes his passion to have Main Street participate in the growing economy as investors and owners, not only earners. Invested also offers unique insights and lifelong principles for readers—the values that Schwab has lived and worked by that have made him one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time.