[danwee]

I'm not sure if reading the book would help. If the manager has a technical background (e.g., they have worked as developers before) then they already know the main point of the book. If the manager does not have a tech background, then there's little that the book can do for them.

[Karellen]

> they already know the main point of the book.

If the only important information in the book was its main point, it wouldn't have needed to be a book. It could have been a leaflet. Or a bumper sticker - those can be very catchy.

It's worth reading the book for all the other words it contains.

[benjijay]

So this book is... not for people with a tech background, AND not for people without a tech background? Should I put the cat in the box now?

[plagiarist]

They might have been making that joke and nobody got it.

[mindsuck]

You believe every tech oriented person already knows everything there is in the book?

[Cthulhu_]

No, but most will at some point in their career hear about it in comment sections on HN and the like, or in many different forms hear the adage that adding more people to a project makes it later.