How to Read a Business Book

For those of you who are wont to read a good business book from time to time, you might want to check out this little gem from Fast Company on how to read them.

The essence: distill the central idea and create your own toolbox. Good advice that, especially when combined with another recently seen (but forgot where) idea that there is no such thing as the perfect business theory. A good consultant holds good theories and their opposites in mind at all times.

Which is why we need decent holistic frameworks for working in organizations. That way we can find the variety of truths about organizational and personal capacities and put them to use appropriately.