Book Details:
Book Title: Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo by Dan Hill & Howard Moskowitz
Category: Adult Non- Fiction 18+, 147 pages
Genre: Humor (Business)
Publisher: Sensory Logic, Inc.
Release Date: September 15, 2021
Tour dates: September 15 to October 5
Content Rating: PG. OMG and a few references to sexual harassment, etc. Quite mild.
Book Description:
Need a laugh to get through your workday?
You've come to the right place. Ambrose Bierce's classic The Devil's Dictionary took on life in general. Now a century later, it's time to lampoon the business world. There's no richer target than being told to think outside the box by leaders spouting off about synergy, teamwork, and innovation while at the same time exhorting you to stay in your swim lane. If as famed business guru Peter Drucker writes, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast," then we've been asked to eat a dog's breakfast at work for far too long!
A little truth in every joke.
Join the fun as the two lead authors and 50 other contributors offer their humorous take on how the workplace really operates. With almost 600 diabolical definitions to enjoy, you're sure to find plenty to smile about.
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GUEST POST
Don’t Mess with My Heart, Mind or Pocketbook!
By Dan Hill
Why do we go to work? For some of us, it’s a passion—a passion that might slowly ebb from us thanks to managers who leave us with REASONS TO CARE: N/A or feeling like we’re stuck BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: Walking into the office every day. For others of us, we go to work in no small part because we’re hoping for some good company at a good company. What might we find instead? GETTING SOME PUSHBACK: Experiencing gale-force winds. Who are your CO-WORKERS: Those with whom you spend more time than your own family but no less about than a mongoose.
Of course, there’s also the money. What a shame, then, when you become a victim of AUTOMATION: Staffing reductions that involve a plug-in cord. Or that the company’s definition of LIVING WAGE really means, “the minimum wage x gazillion.”
One recourse could be despair. But don’t let the b*stards get you down! Turn to humor instead, first to lift your spirits and then you to give you the energy to find a better job, a better workplace, a better corporate culture. Soon 75% of the workplace will consist of millennials who know that there is no longer such a thing as job security and that BUSY is the new STUPID. Find a job with more meaning, and where one gets treated well. That’s the underlying purpose of Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo. It’s a book with more than a little truth in every joke.
Meet the Authors:
Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of nine books, including Emotionomics, which was an Advertising Age top 10 must-read selection and features a foreword by Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons. In 1998, Dan founded Sensory Logic, Inc. whose clients represent over 50% of the world's top 100 advertisers. Besides having spoken to audiences in over 25 countries, Dan has had media appearances ranging from ABC's "Good Morning, America" to NBC's "The Today Shows,” CNN, Fox, MSNBC, ESPN, and the Tennis Channel. Dan was also a regular guest on PBS’s “Mental Engineering” show, hailed by Bill Moyers as “the most interesting weekly half hour of social commentary and criticism on television.” In print, Dan has received front-page coverage in the New York Times for his work in pro and NCAA Division 1 sports and was a non-partisan columnist for Reuters during the 2016 presidential race. Nowadays he hosts the podcast "Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight," which appears on the New Books Network (NBN), the world's largest book review platform with over 1.7 million downloads monthly. Dan was educated at St. Olaf College, Oxford University, Brown University, and Rutgers University.
Howard Moskowitz is a legendary product market researcher, experiential psychologist, and inventor of world-class market research technologies used by virtually every company that matters. Howard earned his PhD in experimental psychology from Harvard University. In 2004, he was the subject of a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell, "The Ketchup Conundrum," which became the basis for Gladwell's TED talk entitled "Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce." In 2014, Howard founded Mind Genomics Associates to investigate how people think about aspects of their daily lives. In addition to over 400 scientific articles about the minds of consumers, Howard has written/edited 28 books, a roster that features the very popular book Selling Blue Elephants.
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Grand Prize: Signed copy of Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo
+ a signed copy of Famous Faces Decoded: A Guidebook for Reading Others
Runner-Up Prize: a signed copy of Blah, Blah, Blah
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