Deishima
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Doug Engstrom:
I am very excited on winning your book "Corporate Gunslinger" through the Goodreads giveaways. Curious.. was being a business analyst part of your inspiration to write this book?
Doug Engstrom
Deishima: I'm terribly sorry this took so long; I wasn't looking in the right place to see if anyone asked questions.
Being a business analyst was not, in and of itself, part of my inspiration, but years of immersion in corporate culture definitely played a role. The effect probably shows most clearly in my approach to the corporate code of conduct and the "Guiding Principles" poster.
While my view of our current economic structure isn't quite as dark and cynical as Diana's ("...you're turning somebody's life into somebody else's money.") I'm much closer to that than the "working together to build value" nonsense I've been fed most of my adult life.
Being a business analyst was not, in and of itself, part of my inspiration, but years of immersion in corporate culture definitely played a role. The effect probably shows most clearly in my approach to the corporate code of conduct and the "Guiding Principles" poster.
While my view of our current economic structure isn't quite as dark and cynical as Diana's ("...you're turning somebody's life into somebody else's money.") I'm much closer to that than the "working together to build value" nonsense I've been fed most of my adult life.
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