Looking for an effective way to pick up a useful business book to read? This this was prepared by Max Nisen for Business Insider won’t be a waste of time.

Each of the famous and influential business books is described in just one sentence.

For instance, here is the central lesson from The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen:

“You have to be willing to kill off or cannibalize your best businesses, or someone else will do it for you.”

Here’s another example, from Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive:

“Being effective is as much about what you choose not to do as it is about what you actually do each day.”

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