One Sentence Summary: To succeed in your career, you must understand and apply many unwritten rules with respect to the work, the chain of command, colleagues, project management, the organizational structure, what managers expect from their subordinates, character, personality, and personal development; sometimes these laws seem obvious but even so, those presented in this book are regularly forgotten.
By W.J. King, with revisions and additions by James G. Skakoon, 100 pages, published in 1944 (first edition under the name The Unwritten Laws of Enginnering), and in 2001 (current revised edition).
Summary and Book Report:
This little book (size-wise) is the epitomy of a universal short and concise text that has outlasted generations and specializations. First published in 1944 under the name The Unwritten Laws of Enginnering, was republished under the same title in 2001 after some touching up.
It’s story becomes fascinating after that: William H. Swanson, CEO of the huge American defense corporation, Raytheon (73,000 employees) released a book in 2005 entitled Swanson’s Unwritten rules of Management, which the New York Times showed to be a plagiarism of the 1944 classic. Before this revelation, the book was very successful, attracting positive reactions from leaders such as Warren Buffet (American billionaire and richest man in the world – ah yes! he has dethroned Bill Gates 
) or Jack Welch (former CEO of General Electric).
William Swanson acknowledged this and apologized. Suddenly, public attention was turned towards the original work, very intelligently renamed by its editor under its current title, which represents the universal appeal of its contents very well.
Even though it was conceived by an engineer for engineers, the 63 recommended rules go beyond this sector and apply to anyone who ends up working in a team, whether you are at the very bottom or the very top of the ladder. Some may seem obvious, but according to the author, they are all without exception often forgotten within organizations, from small businesses to multinational corporations.
Here are the 63 rules, summarized for the most post – I have not listed the ones that are pretty self-explanatory: