Mediocrity in ten easy steps : and many, many, many more! / Al Michaud
By: Michaud, Al
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: San Jose : Writer's Showcase presented by Writer's Digest, ©2000Description: xxvi, 191 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780595009824 (pbk.)Subject(s): Affaires Humour. Business. Business Humor. Business consultants. Business consultants Humor. Conseillers d'entreprise HumourDDC classification: 814.6 MIC | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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A thing, not a people person be
Another look-hearing vs listening
Art of the boondoggle
Be uncomfortable
Be unreliable and undependable
Better bitter letters
Buzz words
Changeless change
Change jobs often
Chase titles
Coffee
Consultant pox
Crush and destroy
Delay! Delay! Delay!
Delegate? Never!
Follow up? Hah!
Don't check a company before joining up
Dotted line traps
The great and terrible frequent flyer rip off
Have no "style"
Hiding places
Hold lots of hands
Hold no hands
How not to write
Ignore customers
Label don't analyze
Leap to conclusions
Less than 9 to 5 is more
Let time manage you not vice versa
Listen but do not hear
Little things
Long range planning
Look but do not see
Loser's limp
Lots of VPs
Lower standards are great!
Make telephone appointments to telephone
Mantras for mediocrity
Meetings mania
Memos to sink with
Messy desk
Negotiations for failure
No knowledge is great
No outside interests
Old and not so
People
Phon(y)ing
Planning morass
Read lots of how to books
Share nothing
Speak-write-act think-unclearly-fuzzily-obtusely
Sports talk
Stay put
Stubborn is in
Take no definite stand
Talk but always walk
The teaching route to mediocrity
The quibble and the nit pick
Volunteer
? Ho! Ho!
Warm fuzzy words
Water fountain sabotage
Weave and dodge
Wu-wei

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