Management Bits and Tips

Yesterday in a local Dun Laoghaire bookstore I stumbled upon this book:

Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn’t and Why: 10 Things You’d Better Do If You Want to Get Ahead

Initially I hesitated but finally bought it. I wasn’t disappointed when I started reading it that evening. This book finally puts an explanatory system around career promotions and it really fits well with my observations in 15 companies I worked for during past 15 years. This doesn’t mean that I changed the company ever year The longest relationship with a company was 7 years and my current relationship with Citrix approaches 5 years. I just worked for some companies in parallel or just for a few months. This book also teaches some important vocabulary such as:

• - future value
• - a smooth handoff within the window of opportunity
• - optimization of the outcome of the staffing change

- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -

I own a few books about bullshit and reading them is great fun. The first one is about bullshit in economics, politics, medicine, marketing, sales, and many other areas of human activity. I read it completely two years ago and highly recommend:

The Dictionary of Bullshit

The second book is very short, easy to carry around and looks like Tractatus Bullshito-Philosophicus:

On Bullshit

The last two books I bought recently and the first of them is the dictionary that seems to be very funny too:

The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit: An A to Z Lexicon of Empty, Enraging, and Just Plain Stupid Office Talk

The other one seems to be a compilation of various philosophical works with guaranteed results:

Bullshit and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -

History and current affairs books are full with political case studies (bit). Read history books to get balanced view of politics and better understand corporations, internal and external forces that shape them and move people in, up, and out (tip).

I love history since childhood. I resumed reading history books after very long period of being a software engineer and in the future posts I’m going to point to some books that I recently read or plan to read. One of them is

The Naked Capitalist

Reading this book prompted me to buy another one that I’m reading now:

Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -