Ask HN: Fictional business books like The Goal

I feel like The Goal and The Phoenix Project were seminal books, partly because their fictional style allowed people to see the ideas in applied form. Are there any other fictional business books we should be reading

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romanhn · 1h ago

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni is another classic.

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