What are some of the must read books in Management Consulting?

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The Prince by Machiavelli

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k

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How to win friends and influence people is my favourite

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What was your actual takeaway from this book?

House of Lies

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Garfield Without Garfield

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I'm in analytics not MC, but I found Trusted Advisor and Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play both to be very valuable.

Bad Blood, we basically operate the same way.

Poseidon by Franz Kafka (just a quick one page short story.)

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