> The thing is, it seems to me that many of these books are just extremely information-sparse
I too have most of these books on a shelf. I’ve found most of them can be skimmed and if they have descriptive chapter naming , just skimming the TOC is enough to get the gist. They rarely go into much detail on execution and generally just talk about a couple business cases as examples of the topic in action. But these usually don’t help on your specific business other than making you aware of the topic. If you’re already interested in business and know some of the lingo these are mostly useless. There’s a lot of blogs and content online I’ve read over the years that is significantly more helpful but I could see how given the state of blogs and content how this could be useful for someone young and/or relatively new to business in general.
I too have most of these books on a shelf. I’ve found most of them can be skimmed and if they have descriptive chapter naming , just skimming the TOC is enough to get the gist. They rarely go into much detail on execution and generally just talk about a couple business cases as examples of the topic in action. But these usually don’t help on your specific business other than making you aware of the topic. If you’re already interested in business and know some of the lingo these are mostly useless. There’s a lot of blogs and content online I’ve read over the years that is significantly more helpful but I could see how given the state of blogs and content how this could be useful for someone young and/or relatively new to business in general.