Mediocrity in ten easy steps : and many, many, many more! / Al Michaud

By: Michaud, Al
Material type: TextTextLanguage: 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
Contents:
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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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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