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Title: Unique writing style; cynical view of subject; worth reading
Review: If you like Dilbert, P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Menchken, etc., you might also enjoy this. Most of the book describes how and why organizations can't manage complexity, and there is also advice on how one can deal with that and still 'have fun at work.'The most interesting thing to me was the author's extremely convoluted style of writing. Reminds me of von Veblen and 'The theory of the leisure class.' Sometimes the prose is amazingly twisted and hard-to-follow.... but it's fun to wonder why this guy went about writing a book in this unusual style because he does seem to grasp the realities of the workplace.Memorable item from book: POSIWID (the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.) As we used to say in the seventies, Think About It.
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