How Not To Do Things

By Richard Hollingum and Mario McMillan

Ever wondered how, despite your hardest efforts in the office, nothing ever seems to get done?
With the subtitle: the Corporate Saboteurs Handbook, summing up its raison d'etre, this very clever, very funny and very sharp little book cuts briliantly to the chase, attacking the very heart of business paralysis by analysis and the mind numbing techno-speak world of mission statements, team building and expensive consultants. Want to really understand how to get things done and achieve real results when everything around you seems to conspire against it? Read this little gem and try not to laugh out loud in the office - after all, you don't want them to know you're on to them. An invaluable tool for anyone with a sense of humour and a sharp mind who want to take on the corporate world and win. Delightfully retro and tongue in cheek, it's the thinking person's answer to tHE SECREt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Jan 31, 2010
• ISBN: 9780730400691

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Dedication

We would like to dedicate this book to every idle waster, incompetent, numpty and politicking ne’er-do-well we have ever worked with. Without your inspiration, The Department of Doing would never have been started, and this guidebook never written. For every wasted hour, thwarted ambition and fruitless endeavour, we sincerely thank you.

Richard Hollingum and Mario McMillan

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Table of Contents

Cover Page

Dedication

About This Book

Principle 1. Don’t Make A Start

Principle 2. Call a Meeting

Principle 3. Listen to the Loudest Voice

Principle 4. Do Some Market Research

Principle 5. Go Back to First Principles

Principle 6. Invoke Mysticism

Principle 7. Criticise Doers

Principle 8. Be Clever

Principle 9. Tossers

Principle 10. Ignore the Obvious

Principle 11. The Real Secret

Rate Yourself

Final Scores: How Well Did You Do?

Wu-wei: The Art of Doing Nothing

Increase The Sabotage Knowledge Base

Do It Yourself

Acknowledgements, thanks and credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book is a kind of reverse manifesto for how we go about our