My Cheap(er) MBA

In trolling through the Personal MBA Forums, I found a link to an article called “How to Read a Business Book“. I found the overall idea of the article to be very insightful. The article is a quick read and provides a nice framework to think about in reading business books. His article is a summary of the thoughts of Mortimer J. Adler’s book “How To Read a Book“. He takes the basic ideas and summarizes them in a context for reading a business book and adds some of his own insights and ideas.

It is worth the 10 minutes it will take you to read it. It gave me some good ideas and questions to be asking while I am reading all of my books.

- What is the main “proposition”?
- Is the author using inductive or deductive reasoning?
- If deductive, do I agree with the assumptions being made? Is the reasoning logical?
- If inductive is the data sample resonable?

My favorite quote from the article is “Remember, data is not the plural of anecdotes.”.

Anyhow, this is a worthwhile read and I appreciated the authors insight and summary.