Warning: May Contain Nuts – Absolutely the First Definitive Rev of the Incompetent, Inadvertant & Occasionally Illegal World of Bus in New Millenium

May Contain Nuts! absolutely the first definitive review of the incompetent, inadvertent and occasionally illegal world of business in the new Millenium.

Paperback Engels 2002 9781841124629
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In Warning: May Contain Nuts we are once again pleasantly immersed in the world which is Barry Gibbons. Following on from his best selling Dream Merchants and Howboys, Barry Gibbons, former CEO of Burger King and iconoclast, gives a hilarious and insightful account of how and why businesses get it wrong!

Through a series of droll vignettes, Gibbons takes us on a romp–roaring ride through the next 999 years of corporate mayhem and madness – bad behaviours which affect everyone – from the street sweeper to the CEO in his private jet. Because we′re not talking about little blips on a profit and loss statement in a poxy sector of some niche industry.

Business has far more an impact on our daily lives than government or politics. About half of the world′s biggest economies are now corporations. From Enron′s attempt to bring back the eighties with their excessive greed to Vodafone′s loosing millions (that didn′t actually exist in the first place) – Gibbons rips into the antics of these once trusted companies. So is it all doom and gloom? Are we destined for failure because of the frolicking these companies get up to – at our expense!? Are there any lessons or optimistic quick turn–around plans of action that Gibbons can share with us? Not really. But Warning: May Contain Nuts makes for some highly entertaining reading. And for the clever among us the lessons are implied. Just don′t be daft.

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ISBN13:9781841124629
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:224
Hoofdrubriek:, Algemeen management

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<p>Introduction vii</p>
<p>1 The Emerald Tiger and Dame Edna 1</p>
<p>2 Mediocre, Sad and Cheating: The Ascent of Man 8</p>
<p>3 How Many Tears ... 12</p>
<p>4 Reflections from Tibet 16</p>
<p>5 Wisdom from the Little Red (Business) Book 21</p>
<p>6 Viva El Gato 25</p>
<p>7 The Return of El Gato 29</p>
<p>8 Zero Tolerance? Make My Day 33</p>
<p>9 An Apple a Day 37</p>
<p>10 Have it Your Way 41</p>
<p>11 Yes, We Have No Bananas 45</p>
<p>12 What News from the Rialto? 49</p>
<p>13 Jury s Still Out 53</p>
<p>14 Bill and Me Such Good Losers 57</p>
<p>15 Midsummer Night Dreams 61</p>
<p>16 Listen Carefully: I Will Say This Only Once 65</p>
<p>17 Be Like Mike 69</p>
<p>18 I m Dreaming of a Green Ketchup? 73</p>
<p>19 Lessons from the Golf Pro 77</p>
<p>20 Learning the Hard Way 81</p>
<p>21 When Dilbert was Funny 85</p>
<p>22 Champagne First, Please 89</p>
<p>23 All That Useless Beauty 93</p>
<p>24 Lights Out, Please 97</p>
<p>25 Amazingly Graceless 101</p>
<p>26 R U there? This is 4 U 105</p>
<p>27 Loaves and Fishes 109</p>
<p>28 Hello AOL, Goodbye Oldsmobile 113</p>
<p>29 Dr Who? 118</p>
<p>30 Only When I Laugh 123</p>
<p>31 More Stuff, Less Choice 127</p>
<p>32 Remedies for the Ohno Moment 131</p>
<p>33 The Last Post (Office) 135</p>
<p>34 The Benefits of S.E.A.L. 139</p>
<p>35 The Changing Face of Giants 144</p>
<p>36 No Wonder We Are Living Longer 148</p>
<p>37 Rebel Without a Cause 152</p>
<p>38 I Say, Would You Mind Awfully 156</p>
<p>39 Don t Read This Before Your Chicken Soup 160</p>
<p>40 It s Life, Jim But Not As We Know It 164</p>
<p>41 People are Our Greatest Asset (and Other Corporate Lies) 168</p>
<p>42 And So it Came to Pass Oh No it Didn t 172</p>
<p>43 Danger! Genius at Work 176</p>
<p>44 That Was The Week That Was 180</p>
<p>45 Go On, Surprise Me Make My Day 184</p>
<p>46 The Defense Speaks 188</p>
<p>47 Across the Great Divide 193</p>
<p>48 And Now for Something Completely Different 198</p>
<p>Index 203</p>

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