Fortune
US · 56 mins ago
40% of Americans didn’t read a book last year. These 3 are worth the exception
Good morning. About 40% of Americans didn’t read a single book last year, despite Oprah’s Book Club, Bill Gates’ reading list and ominous missives about declining literacy. Many of us own books we’ve never read or, at best, skimmed. When Chris Matthews asked me during a Hardball interview about my book Fraternity, having apparently not read it, I turned it over to show him he’d written a blurb to praise it on the back. My summer reading list includes speculative fiction, true crime and a divisive book about trad wife time travel. But let’s talk about the value of a good business book. Many are written by people seeking fame on the speaker circuit or a chance to rewrite their own history. But I speak to many leaders who were deeply influenced by a good book that shifted their thinking. Here
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