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Management for Cannibals: How to Become Chief Eating Officer
Admittedly, this book pushes the picture to the extremes. Here in the American corporate culture, we don't eat each other. We don't have shamans. Our CEOs don't eat too much out of the common pie, do they?If you are a wise person, you will find a lot of sound advice on how to be a successful manager. Then again, if you are wise, why would you want to be a manager in the first place?If you are smart and have a sense of humor, you will have fun, and the advice in this book will aid your success as well.If you don't have a sense of humor and you are not a manager, you will satisfy your grudge against them.And if you have no sense of humor and you are a manager Well, maybe you should not read this book. Just continue to do whatever you do, and let the rest of us have fun watching If you choose to follow this book to build your management career, we strongly advise against following it literally.
160 pages, Paperback
First published August 14, 2003
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January 28, 2014
So, all of my friends who worked at Microsoft and read this book think they know who the author is, I think so too.
The book is absolutely brilliant and hilarious - I think the author was looking for a way to pass his wisdom about corporate politics and found one. I mean, you can't just talk about things as they are, right? So turns out world of cannibals is perfect analogy. Career choice is not about being a manager or individual contributor, it's to be cannibal or to be food. Food is always the easier choice.
Hard to believe you can fit so many true stories in one short book. Sometimes it's funny beyond funny, sometimes it's serious and intense ("Don't trust, don't fear, don't beg"), sometimes it's just insightful on the whole different level.
Definite highlight of the year. I couldn't stop reading it until I was done, too bad it's short. I think it's just two or three great evenings.
Gave this book as a present, will do it again.
Highly recommended to anyone working/worked/going to work at big US company (and you can't really guarantee it ain't gonna happen).
Bonus: great excepts of the book in Russian (not going to translate it) - http://blog.gamedeff.com/?p=583
The book is absolutely brilliant and hilarious - I think the author was looking for a way to pass his wisdom about corporate politics and found one. I mean, you can't just talk about things as they are, right? So turns out world of cannibals is perfect analogy. Career choice is not about being a manager or individual contributor, it's to be cannibal or to be food. Food is always the easier choice.
Hard to believe you can fit so many true stories in one short book. Sometimes it's funny beyond funny, sometimes it's serious and intense ("Don't trust, don't fear, don't beg"), sometimes it's just insightful on the whole different level.
Definite highlight of the year. I couldn't stop reading it until I was done, too bad it's short. I think it's just two or three great evenings.
Gave this book as a present, will do it again.
Highly recommended to anyone working/worked/going to work at big US company (and you can't really guarantee it ain't gonna happen).
Bonus: great excepts of the book in Russian (not going to translate it) - http://blog.gamedeff.com/?p=583
February 24, 2017
My notes on this book: https://anaulin.org/blog/2017/02/book...
January 6, 2016
A must-read for anyone working in large corporations :)
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