Give me one overrated and one underrated business book. I'll start. Overrated: The 4-Hour Workweek — good ideas buried in a lifestyle fantasy most people can't run. Underrated: Founders at Work — the messy, honest early days before the billion-dollar exits. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work
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Overrated: Good to Great. Half the "great" companies had rough decades after — Circuit City was literally in the book. Underrated: The Innovator's Dilemma — great companies fail by doing everything right. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma
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Underrated to the point of obscurity: Poor Charlie's Almanack. 50 years of Munger's mental models in one coffee-table brick. Reread a chapter a quarter. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/944652.Poor_Charlie_s_Almanack
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The Mom Test, every time. Should be mandatory before you write a line of code. It's the cure for talking yourself into a product nobody actually wants.