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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 27 to October 15
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
Humor, and a Little Revenge on Tone-Deaf Bosses
My latest book, Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo had a
definite “eureka” creation moment of inspiration. Two guests in a row, on back
to back weeks on my podcast “Dan Hill’s EQ Spotlight” on the New Books Network,
the world’s largest book review platform, mentioned to me almost casually as if
in passing that the estimate is that 25% of all office managers are bullies.
Wow. That’s stunning. Especially when you consider that millions of dollars get
poured into supposedly improving corporate cultures. How can you lift the
culture if you’ve got the cancer of bad, bully bosses infiltrating your ranks
and making matters worse for your employees?
Soon after the 2nd of these references to bully bosses being so
prevalent I woke up early one morning and vowed to do something about it. But
what, exactly? Then I thought of one of my favorite books, The Devil’s
Dictionary by Mark Twain’s contemporary Ambrose Bierce. That book is
considered one of the 100 greatest works of American literature, with
diabolical definitions like BORE: Somebody who talks when you want them to
listen. So, I thought: why not use humor to score some points about how things
could be better than they so often are on the job?
Throw in going back to watch episodes of The Office tv show, and movies
like 9 to 5 and The Devil Wears Prada and I was on it. But since
I knew I couldn’t speak to everyone’s perspective, I quickly decided I would
crowdsource the book and invite definitions from men and women from all
different professionals and stages of their careers from across America,
Canada, Europe and beyond.
Besides dispensing humor, do bosses get a “talking to”? I hope so, thanks to
entries like the following among others. There’s MEANDERTHAL: A boss, usually
of the older and heavier male variety, known to pontificate endlessly. There’s
DISTRACTIONS: How an overly ambitious boss views an employee’s beloved family.
And finally, VACATION (or holiday): A beautiful setting where one goes with
loved ones to reduce one’s daily workload to only three to four hours a day.
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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