The Ministry Of Common Sense, Martin Lindstrom
The Ministry Of Common Sense, Martin Lindstrom
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The Ministry Of Common Sense
How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS

Author: Martin Lindstrom

Narrator: Robert Fass

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/19/2021


Synopsis

WALL STREET JOURNAL Bestseller

A humorous yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves—and our companies—of bureaucratic bottlenecks and red tape
 
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the TSA is allowing passengers to board planes with unlimited amounts of hand sanitizer, while maintaining its 3.4-ounce limit on all other liquids. You need a chainsaw to pry open your new pair of headphones from their package. Your eighth Zoom meeting of the day keeps freezing, and if you hear “No, wait; no, you go first” again, you will implode. But first you have to sit through an endless Power Point presentation that everyone claims they’ve read, no one has, and that could have been summarized in one page.
 
What has happened to common sense? And how can we get it back? Companies, it seems, have become so entangled in their own internal issues, and further beset by reams of invisible red tape, that they’ve lost sight of their core purpose. Inevitably, they pay the price.
 
Best-selling author Martin Lindstrom combines numerous real‑life examples of corporate common sense gone wrong with his own ingenious plan for restoring logic—and sanity—to the companies and people that need it most. A must-read for today’s executives, managers, and employees, The Ministry of Common Sense is funny, entertaining, and immensely practical.

About Martin Lindstrom

Best-selling business author MARTIN LINDSTROM is a well-known international management consultant who routinely sees various kinds of “corporate constipation” all over the world. Over the years, he has learned how to quickly pinpoint and then eradicate these bothersome hurdles in companies of all sizes.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Inside flap reads: “A humorous yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves - and our companies - of the bureaucratic bottlenecks and red tape that plague every office”. The entire “five-step guide” can be found in chapter 9. Chapter 10 is essentially an FAQ on the five-step guide. Chapters 1-......more

Goodreads review by Suleman

It’s a funny rant more than anything else . Things you encounter everyday if you have worked for a large corporation. Kind of in tandem with the book “ bulllshit jobs “ . The biggest message is : when you feel something doesn’t make sense stand up and be vocal about it . Don’t be a sheep !......more

Goodreads review by Roman

Куча примеров потери здравого смысла, однако большинство из них сводятся к овер-регулированию, т.е. когда плюс-минус здравое правило в некоторых случаях приводит к бредовым ситуациям. Поэтому складывается ощущение, что здравый смысл потерялся в основном в поездках (перелёты, коммандировки, отели), к......more

A thoroughly engaging and entertaining book which not only provides anecdotes of seemingly nonsensical situations but also provides template for how to identify and correct them. While that by itself may not be easy in corporate sector, it is multiple times more challenging in the government even if......more

Goodreads review by Ali

it's an amazing book i really recommend to read it; the author has a sense of humor while writing which makes the stories he tells interesting......more