(adage.com) — I recently read Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s Reworkwhile on a four-hour flight. Hands-down, it’s simply the best business book I’ve read in years. For one, it’s actually readable and entertaining. Even if I wasn’t trapped on a plane, it’s still a book I’d have consumed just as quickly.
Chock full of nuggets of business wisdom, disguised in part as common sense, it’s one of those books I wish I wrote myself. Some of its best insights follow below, in bold, along with my take on them.