Personally, though, I think there are book anti-patterns, too. If you start somewhere new or get new management and they hand out Machiavelli or Sun Tzu, Yo

Personally, though, I think there are book anti-patterns, too. If you start somewhere new or get new management and they hand out Machiavelli or Sun Tzu, You should probably update your resume and start taking recruiter calls; things are about to get rough. I mean, those are important books, and you should read them for historical/cultural reasons, but if management hands them out at work, from experience, it's indicative of an, uh, unhealthy or at least unpleasant work culture.