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Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs

Lloyd Blankfein

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Summary

Lloyd Blankfein recounts his path from a Brooklyn childhood to leadership at Goldman Sachs. The memoir combines personal experience with an account of work, risk and upheaval in finance.

His perspective is that of a participant in major institutions and crises. The account invites comparison between the choices a leader describes and the conditions surrounding those choices.

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Why read it Our view

Compare the narrator’s explanation of a difficult decision with the information and incentives he describes. Keep hindsight separate from what could be known then.