Favorite Fiction Book about Business
First, I will say there are no books out there about what business is really like, probably because reality can be pretty grim -- I don't think that people would be hanging on the edge of their seat reading about a manager arguing with the Department of Labor about a fine for his minimum wage poster not being in the right location. Maybe if Dave Berry wrote it.
Anyway, most fiction that involves a business is either about some rapacious capitalist who is stealing or killing or destroying the environment or whatever or it is a sort of Machiavellian opera ala Dallas or Dynasty. Few actually portray a business leader as a hero.
For business people that are heroic and multi-dimensional, and exempting Atlas Shrugged as in a class by itself, I recommend James Clavell's Noble House. This zillion page book covers but 8 days of time in early 1960's Hong Kong, but is epic none-the-less. I just finished reading it a second time and I enjoyed it even more than the first time.
