Recommended Reading
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A curated reading list for executives navigating digital assets, finance transformation, and leadership in complex systems.
This reading list reflects books and long-form works that have shaped my thinking across finance, decision-making, systems, leadership, and human behaviour.
Rather than focusing on trends or tactical guides, these selections prioritise foundational understanding, mental models, and long-term perspective—qualities that matter when operating in uncertain, high-stakes environments.
The list evolves over time and spans topics including:
Financial systems and market structure
Digital assets and technological change
Decision-making under uncertainty
Risk, incentives, and human behaviour
Leadership, resilience, and personal responsibility
Each recommendation is included because it offers durable insight, not because it aligns with any product, protocol, or ideology.
How to use this list
These books are not required reading, nor endorsements of specific strategies.
They are intended to:
Support independent thinking
Provide context beyond headlines
Strengthen judgment rather than prescribe actions
Where helpful, short annotations may be added to explain why a book matters or how it connects to themes explored in Ascend7CFO² white papers and services.