For general sales and negotiations:
In Business As in Life, You Don’t Get what you Deserve, You get What you Negotiate.
http://www.amazon.com/Business-Life-Dont-Deserve-Negotiate/dp/0965227499

For investment strategies -
When Markets Collide, by Mohammed El-Erian.
Tremendous thinker, great ideas, but read it in a closet. His style of reading and level of sophistication requires focus.

Christine Benz’s “Morningstar Guide To Picking Mutual Funds”

The Excellent Investment Advisor - Nick Murray.  My edition is a little dated, but still very applicable.  

Two negotiating and sales texts: Getting to Yes and Stop Telling Start Selling.



Non-fiction books for fun about the industry that actually do “teach” something:



Den of Thieves (About the Milkin/Boesky scandal in the 80s.)



Born to Steel (Boiler room broker Louis Pasciuto’s true story about work at Hanover Sterling in the 90s.)



License to Steel (Anonymous autobiography of a broker whose career spread three firms.)



The Scorpion and the Frog (Rogue brokers at boiler room firms; some same characters from Born to Steel including brokers at Hanover Sterling and AT Broad.)



Wolf of Wall Street (Jordan Belfort’s account of his crimes at Stratton Oakmont that led to his incarceration.)



The Rip (Compilation of several anonymized stories of 1990s boiler room brokers.)



Confessions of a Street Addict (Only useful thing Cramer has written and one of few insider accounts of a hedge fund.)

For you, starting at a bank:

Thanks for the suggestions across the board. Ominous, I registered for the Bob Cobb's newsletter. I received the first one yesterday and it had some information I'll implement ASAP.

Varick and GVF - I ordered your suggestions this morning on Amazon. Although I feel pretty comfortable with mutual funds I still went ahead and ordered the Morningstar book to have at the very least as a resource. It appears that selling mutual funds will be a big part of what I do on a bank platform.