Corporate Punishment identifies the most overused clichés in the business management world and then rips each one of them to shreds. Clichés like the customer is always right’, employees are our greatest asset’, there’s no I in team’, and many others, all get massacred for the fraudulent claims that they are. This book is not only an indictment of the unimaginative and mundane sentences that most managers use. It’s also a revelation. Every page is filled with advice that is contrarian, with managers’ firmly-held beliefs challenged in each paragraph. It’s all done in a funny, provocative, and credible way that aims to give managers a wake-up call. It’s time to move on from the lame sayings of yesteryear and to move on to the post-financial crisis world which requires a new form of management wisdom. Corporate Punishment is one step in that direction. Each chapter is between two and four pages long which makes it easily digestible for busy managers and business owners. By avoiding boring theories and complex models, Corporate Punishment uses a conversational tone to engage the readers who get turned off by intense academic-type management books. It encourages them to abandon the business philosophies that were in vogue back in the 1970s, and to embrace a new form of thinking that does away with popular rhetoric that is vacuous at best and dreadfully wrong at worst.
Book Details:
- Author: James Adonis
- ISBN: 9781742169866
- Year Published: 2010
- Pages: 232
- BISAC: BUS000000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/General
About the Book and Topic:
Corporate Punishment identifies the most overused clichés in the business management world and then rips each one of them to shreds. Clichés like the customer is always right’, employees are our greatest asset’, there’s no I in team’, and many others, all get massacred for the fraudulent claims that they are. This book is not only an indictment of the unimaginative and mundane sentences that most managers use. It’s also a revelation. Every page is filled with advice that is contrarian, with managers’ firmly-held beliefs challenged in each paragraph. It’s all done in a funny, provocative, and credible way that aims to give managers a wake-up call. It’s time to move on from the lame sayings of yesteryear and to move on to the post-financial crisis world which requires a new form of management wisdom. Corporate Punishment is one step in that direction. Each chapter is between two and four pages long which makes it easily digestible for busy managers and business owners. By avoiding boring theories and complex models, Corporate Punishment uses a conversational tone to engage the readers who get turned off by intense academic-type management books. It encourages them to abandon the business philosophies that were in vogue back in the 1970s, and to embrace a new form of thinking that does away with popular rhetoric that is vacuous at best and dreadfully wrong at worst.
High-profile author with strong newsletter database and good media platform including regular column in Fairfax newspapers, weekly spot on 2UE and popular blog. Innovative look at how leadership needs to be transformed Perfect timing as people look to leaders to bring them out of the global financial crisis and into a new era
About the Author
James Adonis is one of Australia’s most well-known management gurus. He is a leading international expert on employee engagement, and the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Team Leaders – a company dedicated to developing and recruiting the very best Team Leaders. By the time he was 24, James was managing a team of 100. His major achievements have included taking a team that had employee turnover exceeding 70% and reducing it to zero where it was maintained for 2 years. He has also achieved employee engagement results that have exceeded not only the industry standard, but world’s best practice. Recognised internationally as a premier expert on engagement and retention, James’ articles and research are regularly published in many countries. He is frequently featured in the media as a thought leader on people management and is the author of two books, Employee Enragement: Why people hate working for you’ and Love Your Team: How to halve your employee turnover in less than 90 days!’ As a nationally-syndicated blogger and management columnist with the Fairfax group of newspapers, James’ original thoughts are read by thousands of managers and business owners each week. In fact, his blog is the most commented-on business blog amongst Fairfax’s suite of websites. In 2008, James was the President of the National Speakers Association of Australia (NSW Chapter) – the youngest person in the history of the Association to hold such an honour. For more information on James, visit www.jamesadonis.com.