"Real life doesn't have a theme. Or if it does, it would be amazingly incredible and preposterously improbable if your book matched up with what was going on wi

"Real life doesn't have a theme. Or if it does, it would be amazingly incredible and preposterously improbable if your book matched up with what was going on with my organization." - what a gem. Regardless of the Agile theme (that I know little of to comment) this sentence applies to almost all the business books (specially the biography type). I've read a lot of them and they are basically a collection of feel-good stories with some themes. Selection bias. A typical book will have a chapter like "Never give up" describing some story where the author insisted upon something far-fetched and finally got it (never mind the time he spent on other objectives he didn't get and never mentioned). Same with a lot of other typical themes. A more objective book like "Founders at work" shows that all of them (from what I remember) got lucky not once but at least twice to have their break. Of course insert here the usual disclaimers that you cannot rely on luck only, you have to work hard etc to be ready when opportunity strikes.