Review of
Garfield: The Me Book,
by Jim Davis and Jim Kraft ISBN 0-345-365453
Four out of five stars
Garfield “Me First” philosophy applied to business
This book is
designed to be amusing and should not be considered a guide to how to conduct yourself
in the business world. For the extremely self-centered approach where all
revolves around you will not work in the world outside the comics.
The premise is that “Garfield,” the comic strip cat
that is fat, lazy and considered superior to all others is giving advice on how
to acquire a job and move up the career ladder as fast as possible Treating
others as mere cogs in a machine designed to advance your personal interests
can be an amusing fantasy, but is useless as a principle of operation.
Given that,
this is a book that will appeal to the fantasies of most working people, for it
reinforces the stereotypes that managers are of little value in the organizational
scheme of things.
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