Editor's note: the writer is an analyst (Abby Schultz) at Barron's, focusing on international finance.

If you want to catch the pulse of the times and follow the thinking path of business leaders or business tycoons, you might as well read$JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.US) $PublishedAnnual list of books in the summer of 2018Recommended reading material.

Every year, JPMorgan Chase & Co will survey more than 200,000 employees and finally make a list of books to recommend to the majority of customers. JPMorgan Chase & Co said that the book list shows their enthusiasm for exploring new knowledge and their desire to share new ideas. Over the past 19 years, JPMorgan Chase & Co has insisted on recommending the books that best reflect the pulse of the times and make people think. Of the 10 books on this year's book list, the topics tend to beArtificial intelligence, space exploration, leadership of non-profit organizations, human historyAnd so on.

The specific bibliography is as follows:

• On Grand Strategy, by John Lewis Gaddis

• Space Baron: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and their pursuit of colonizing the Universe (The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos), by Christian Davenport

• Engine of influence: elements of Strategic leadership in the non-profit sector (Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector), by William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey

• The Code of Culture: the Secrets of successful Enterprises (The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups), by Daniel Coyle

• Black Wealth: the Story of the Top six African Americans getting rid of Slavery and becoming Millionaires (Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires), by Shomari Wills

• Solitude: four Seasons, four cities, and the joys of solitude (Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasure of Solitude), by Stephanie Rosenbloom

• The fourth era: intelligent Robots, computers and the Future of Human beings (The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity), by Byron Reese

• Rome: a History of the Seven looting rooms (Rome: A History in Seven Sackings), by Matthew Kneale

• Cocktail chameleon (Cocktail Chameleon), by Mark Addison

• Tippet Rise Art Center (Tippet Rise Art Center), by Peter Halstead and Cathy Halstead

Darin Oduyoye, chief cultural officer of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, said: "this book list was not easy to come by and took more than six months to collect. We first asked employees around the world for advice and screened out the hundreds of books that were recommended the most. A panel of 16 bankers screened the 10 books several times. "

Although it is called the "summer book list", these 10 books are hardly reminiscent of the blue sky and golden beach in summer.Most of the topics covered in the book are serious and formal.For example, Byron Reese's fourth era: the Future of Intelligent Robots, computers and humans, a book that predicts how technology will reshape the future of mankind. Oduyoye said, "We are considering how toUse artificial intelligence when making investmentsTo facilitate faster and more efficient transactions. This book gives us a lot of inspiration. "

In addition to these "serious" books, which are closely related to the topics that customers pay close attention to, JPMorgan Chase & Co also recommended some "idle books" this time, such as Shomari Wills's "Black Wealth: the Top six African-Americans freed from Slavery and become Millionaires" and Stephanie Rosenbloom's "Solitude: four Seasons, four cities, and the joys of Solitude." Xiao Mo saidThe purpose of recommending these books is to provide some interesting topics for chatting after work.. When talking about these topics with customers, employees can naturally become friends with customers.

(this article is produced by Futu Information compilation team, compiled / Fang Jiamei, proofread / Shen Siyu)