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City Slackers: Workers of the World...You Are Wasting Your Time!
With wit, humor, and complete seriousness, this motivational book shows aspiring business leaders how to win the corporate game without actually accomplishing anything. Arguing against the traditional climb up the corporate ladder, this approach demonstrates how to reach the top quickly and effortlessly by replacing hard work with outward finesse. Specific advice includes choosing soft projects with high visibility such as redesigning the company's logo, rotating key buzzwords into casual conversation, and becoming the ultimate "yes person" that appears to put the company first but cleverly undermines the management structure to move ahead.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2006
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February 28, 2015
Damn it, I keep on underestimating Steve McKevitt - I did it before, when I was sent a copy of Everything Now for a review. I expected him to be (and secretly hoped he would be) full of rubbish, and then I started reading and he blew my mind.
This time I was prepared - I expected him to be good. He rose above my expectations once again. Even though this book is now eight years old, and even though it was written before the rise of social media and people with jobs like mine, it's still amazingly relevant.
Put simply, the city slacker is the new type of employee who makes a career by shrewdly doing as little work as possible by making it appear as though they're doing work. You know the type - those guys who never seem to actually do anything, and if they do something and they fail, they get praised for doing the best they could in irrelevant circumstances. Food for thought, for sure - read it as soon as possible.
This time I was prepared - I expected him to be good. He rose above my expectations once again. Even though this book is now eight years old, and even though it was written before the rise of social media and people with jobs like mine, it's still amazingly relevant.
Put simply, the city slacker is the new type of employee who makes a career by shrewdly doing as little work as possible by making it appear as though they're doing work. You know the type - those guys who never seem to actually do anything, and if they do something and they fail, they get praised for doing the best they could in irrelevant circumstances. Food for thought, for sure - read it as soon as possible.
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