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The Flowers of Folly: New Tales from the Bestselling Author
Inconclusive meetings, wrong decisions, rampant bureaucracy, and careerism combined with incompetence—and everybody is quiet because the rot starts at the top. The result: more work for everyone and unnecessary arguments that are only defused with great effort. In other words: management fails to abide by its own leadership principles. The pressure is on to cheat, deceive, and cut corners. In each of the thirty episodes recounted in his new book, Gunter Dueck pours cold water on the wildfires of futility burning everywhere in the world of business. Sometimes, laughter is the only way to stay sane. This is surely the season’s “hottest” business book.
- • Dueck’s latest diagnoses—shorter, sharper, and more shocking than ever
- • Highlights the real-life lunacy of corporate cultures
- • A humorous take of the folly and futility of everyday working life
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A humorous and revealing title for all those who want to know exactly what does not work in our working world.
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“For years, Gunter Dueck has been combining science, entrepreneurship, and a highly readable style.” Handelsblatt “Crazy real-life stories, drawn from the world of business and condensed to hair-raising effect.” Harvard Business Manager “As usual, Gunter Dueck pulls no punches in his reckoning with the German management scene.” Managementkompass (From the reviews of Heute schon einen Prozess optimiert? [Optimized Any Processes Lately?], 2020)
Author Biography
Gunter Dueck has been a professor of mathematics and CTO of IBM. Since retiring from that post in August 2011, he has kept busy as an author, blogger, internet activist, business angel, and speaker, trying against the odds to make the world a slightly better place. His books Das Neue und seine Feinde (The New and Its Enemies), Schwarmdumm (Collective Stupidity), Flachsinn (Shallow Thinking) and, most recently, Heute schon einen Prozess optimiert? (Optimized Any Processes Lately?) are all published by Campus.
Campus Verlag GmbH
Founded in 1975 Campus Verlag is one of the most successful, independent German publishers of business books, general non-fiction and academic titles. Campus’ non-fiction titles contribute to the debate on economy, current affairs, history and society. Campus is e.g. the home of authors like Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, Ian Morris, Jeremy Rifkin, and Paul Krugman. The general list is completed by self-help books for personal development. Here, Campus built a number of German authors who became international bestsellers, e.g. Tiki Küstenmacher with “Simplify your life”, Lothar J. Seiwert or Marco von Münchhausen. Its business titles cover two areas: On one hand general titles on management, strategy, sales & marketing, human resources, on the other hand practical books for professional and career development. Among its most eminent authors you find the winner of the Nobel price for economy Robert J. Shiller, Stephen R. Covey, Peter Drucker and two of Germany’s best-known management authors: Reinhard K. Sprenger and Fredmund Malik. The academic list mostly focuses on sociology and history presenting the latest research findings and providing critical analysis. At Campus Verlag, our publishing program is as diverse as society itself. Our books receive great public attention due to its diverse program which is committed to furthering social change and thinking outside the box.
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- Publisher Campus
- Publication Date September 2022
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783593516110
- Pages256
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleKeine Sinnfragen, bitte!
- Copyright Year2022
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