I worked in a bookstore in 2000-2001 and this book was hella popular. I remember thumbing through it and being awed at the grift. It's SO short, printed in like 18 point font, and is filled with illustrations! Absolutely genius level con.
and thanks to that episode “b*tch moved my cheese” is stuck in my head. As well as Michael being a fontina of puns. sigh.
I put this book in the same category as Dale Carnegie shit.
this and The Four Agreements were the most popular grifts going at the time. cc @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
It's really something how so much business and management advice is hopefully esoteric and inaccessible on the one hand, and functionally the same sort of enrichment activities you do with kindergartners on the other is incredible.
Hey, a work book club just did this. Glad I didn't take part
Not gonna identify who but I was given this book by one of “the worst companies you know” listed during my tenure way back in the aughts.
Giant stacks coming un every day
This and Suze Orman. Those displays were so obnoxious. I had a short career at B&N during the same time.