Not my field per se, but in a college course they had us read "All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage" The entire book was a short, s

Not my field per se, but in a college course they had us read "All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage" The entire book was a short, simple allegory about Lean manufacturing that walks you through exactly why Lean is so powerful, in a direct comparison to traditional methods. The book was written to be handed out to dumb auto executives. I still think about the book a lot today even in the software world.