Mediocrity in Ten Easy Steps: And Many, Many, Many More... Book

	List of Contributors Many, Many, Many	v
	Epigraph	xi
	Contents	xiii
	List of Illustrations	xvii
	Foreword	xix
	Acknowledgements	xxi
	Editorial Method	xxiii
	Introduction	xxv
	A Thing, not a People Person Be	1
	Another Look-Hearing vs Listening	3
	Art of the Boondoggle	8
	Avoid Responsibility	18
	Be Uncomfortable	21
	Be Unreliable and Undependable	23
	Better Bitter Letters	24
	Buzz Words	27
	Changeless Change	35
	Change Jobs Often	41
	Chase Titles	42
	Coffee	45
	Consulant Pox	47
	Crush and Destroy	50
	Delay! Delay! Delay!	52
	Delegate? Never!	54
	Follow Up? Hah!	57
	Don't Check a Company Before Joining Up	59
	Dotted Line Traps	61
	The Great and Terrible Frequent Flyer Rip Off	64
	Have No "Style"	68
	Hiding Places	69
	Hold Lots of Hands	76
	Hold No Hands	78
	How Not to Write	79
	Ignore Customers	86
	Label Don't Analyze	89
	Leap to Conclusions	96
	Less Than 9 to 5 is More	98
	Let Time Manage You Not Vice Versa	100
	Listen But Do Not Hear	102
	Little Things	109
	Long Range Planning	111
	Look But Do Not See	113
	Loser's Limp	117
	Lots of VPs	118
	Lower Standards are Great!	120
	Make Telephone Appointments to Telephone	123
	Mantras for Mediocrity	124
	Meetings Mania	129
	Memos to Sink with	134
	Messy Desk	136
	Negotiations for Failure	139
	No Knowledge is Great	141
	No Outside Interests	143
	Old and Not So	146
	People	148
	Phon(y)ing	150
	Planning Morass	153
	Read Lots of How to Books	157
	Share Nothing	158
	Speak-Write-Act Think-Unclearly-Fuzzily-Obtusely	159
	Sports Talk	161
	Stay Put	163
	Stubborn is in	165
	Take No Definite Stand	167
	Talk But Always Walk	169
	The Teaching Route to Mediocrity	171
	The Quibble and the Nit Pick	176
	Volunteer--? Ho! Ho!	182
	Warm Fuzzy Words	183
	Water Fountain Sabotage	184
	Weave and Dodge	186
	Wu-Wei	188
	About the Author	191