Buy or bye?Be sure to follow the link to the overrated books and see what they recommend instead.BNET has done a provocative piece on the 10 most overrated and 10 most underrated business books. Read the 2 lists below to see where they might have put a book you love or loathe.
Here are their 10 OVERRATED books:
- Reengineering the Corporation
- In Search of Excellence
- Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
- Jack Welch & the G. E. Way
- Jesus CEO
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- The One Minute Manager
- Who Moved My Cheese
- Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Here is BNET’s 10 most UNDERRATED books:
- The Tipping Point
- Freakonomics
- Nickel and Dimed
- The Long Tail
- The New Rules of Marketing and PR
- Managers Not MBAs
- The E-Myth Revisited
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Personal Finance for Dummies.
I'd agree with most of the first list other than Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. I cannot recommend The Halo Effect highly enough and would add Getting Things Done to the list as well.
(HT Joe Carter)
2 comments:
I'm with you. I don't think 7 Habits belongs on that list. They called it "highly sanctimonious" and Recommended The Prince instead. I've only read excerpts from The Prince, but from what I saw, it seemed more of a monarchist's guide than pertinent moral advice for living in today's interpersonal world. Am I wrong?
It seems like most of the overrated books are older books than the underrated ones. Of course How to Win Friends... is a classic and thus is kind of an exception.
I would postulate that perhaps as time changes these older books seem more overrated as their relevance fades, not to mention that people get tired of hearing about them.
The relatively newer works seem more fresh and more with the times.
I would bet that given another 10 years or so, for example, that people will be sick of the Freakonomics hype. I would bet that someone making a similar list in another 10 years or so would list alot of the books on the current underrated list as being on the overrated list.
It's kind of like we see in popular music or fashion. What's in and trendy one day is ridiculed by the next generation.
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