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.

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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