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Business Bullshit


Business Bullshit

Paperback by Spicer, André

Business Bullshit

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ISBN:
9781138911673
Publication Date:
20 Sep 2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
212 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 22 May 2024
Business Bullshit

Description

Our organizations are flooded with empty talk. We are constantly "going forward" to lands of "deliverables", stopping off on the "journey" to "drill down" into "best practice". Being an expert at using management speak has become more important in corporate life than delivering long lasting results. The upshot is that meaningless corporate jargon is killing our organizations. In this book, management scholar the author argues we need to call this empty talk what it is: bullshit. The book looks at how organizations have become vast machines for manufacturing, distributing and consuming bullshit. It follows how the meaningless language of management has spread through schools, NGOs, politics and the media. Business Bullshit shows you how to spot business bullshit, considers why it is so popular, and outlines the impact it has on organizations and the people who work there. It also outlines what we can do to minimise bullshit at work. The author makes a case for why organizations need to avoid empty talk and reconnect with core activities.

Contents

1. Introduction 2. Bullshit: A Spotters Guide 3. Why is There So Much Bullshit? 4. How to Do Things with Bullshit 5. Cutting the Bullshit

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