BUSINESS BOOKS mostly bore us. Too many skip the basics of readable writing: a gripping plot, characters you love or hate, narrative momentum. They often reek of bull--polished academic bull or vainglorious, CEO-memoir bull. They fail to do the one thing Hemingway said was essential: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
Sports books do much better, as a rule. I've found some of the most in spiring books on business are actually, first and foremost, sports books. Here are seven great ones that will get your business juices flowing.
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