Books Slideshow: 9 Lamest Business Book Clich?s and Conventions

Business books are a lot like fitness books. You read them for inspiration, maybe for a stray bit of wisdom here and there. But mostly you read them to beat yourselves in the head with stuff you already know.

We get that, really we do, and we understand that part of the reason why hundreds of business books come off the presses every year with the same repackaged information is because people still need to learn those lessons.

Still, a few of the clichés, conventions and genres seem tired enough to warrant an intervention.