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Amazon.com Review

Chances are probably infinitesimal that you are currently the head of a major corporation. But you can dramatically increase the probability that you will end up where you belong in the corporate hierarchy by following choice bits of wisdom such as the following:

"_Remember: your subordinates are not machines. They are human beings with the same dreams as you. OK, maybe not all the same dreams. Probably they don't have the one where you're naked in a vat of Yoo-Hoo with the Soviet gymnastics team._"

Um, thanks Dave!

If you're looking at one of the cassette editions of this title, note that you can absorb all this wisdom while listening to it in your car or Walkman in the course of one commute to work (estimated time: approx. 3 hrs., unless you're already a CEO with a Lear Jet).

From Publishers Weekly

In this amusing and entertaining parody of job-market and business-success books, Barry reviews the history of business ("The Middle Ages were hardly the kind of ages where anybody wanted to make any long-term business commitments"), and then explains how to get a job ("Often, a good resume can mean the difference between not getting a job and not even coming close"). From there he discusses how to do the job ("Most corporations and organizations like to start everybody out with a couple of years of taking messages") and how to step over co-workers ("If you promote yourself to Coordinating Administrator or Administrative Coordinator, nobody will ever be able to pin an actual job responsibility on you"). Again and again he pokes fun at the bureaucratic, corporate mentality, making this an insightful, trenchant satire. Author tour.
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