25 Popular Business Books Summarized In One Sentence Each

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To save you time and money, we’ve distilled 25 of the greatest business books down to their primary insights.

We’ve captured critical advice across a variety of topics, from how to lead a major company to how to thrive in your career.

If you want to bone up on your business theory, here are the central lessons — and a great way to begin a reading list.

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Mike Nudelman—Business Insider

Here are the links you need to nab each one:

  • Give and Take by Adam Grant
  • Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie
  • Decisive by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
  • Emotional Intelligence by Dan Goleman
  • My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan
  • Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  • The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer
  • Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  • Quiet by Susan Cain
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
  • Influence by Robert Cialdini
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
  • Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeir Hansson
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Purple Cow by Seth Godin
  • Drive by Daniel Pink
  • The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  • Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
  • The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
  • The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
  • The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks
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