Reviews for Financial Analysis with an Electronic Calculator

The average rating for Financial Analysis with an Electronic Calculator based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-30 00:00:00 Jason Summers I expected this book to be mostly fluff--but I was wrong. The book is an in-depth examination of our workplace psyches. Many of our behaviors in the workplace are shared by primates. These behaviors are probably not learned, but are inherited instincts. Our love of hierarchies, our ingrained sense of rankings and status, our fights, our building of coalitions, our understanding of risks, nepotism, the so-called "honeymoon phase" in relationships with new acquaintances, and the use of unprovoked hostility; these are all predilections in our workplace jungle that we have inherited from our shared primate ancestors. Evolution has also made us very skillful at detecting cheaters--as are monkeys! Status is very important in the workplace--we pay more attention to status than to the substance of what people say. We respond to "key stimuli"--mainly appearances--more than we care to admit. We have deep prejudices against ugly people. The humor in this book is subtle, but that makes it all the more entertaining. For example, a story is told of a bus company employee who had a receding chin. After getting a chin implant, he rose to become the company president. In general, people are skillful at discerning fakes--except in the bus industry. Of course, many chimpanzee behaviors cannot be extrapolated to humans. And, some people do not take kindly to comparisons between human behavior and that of primates. But it is clearly argued in this book, that humans are social primates. The book ends with a set of useful recommendations for getting along with others in the workplace. Many of these recommendations boil down to being aware of our animal-like tendencies, and to moderate them.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-16 00:00:00 Joseph Stalin What a crazy look into the corporate world. Is this the sort of thing people learn in business school - how to behave like monsters?! As someone who's taken behavioural ecology, much of this book's content wasn't news to me, and I wished Conniff had stuck exclusively to ape analogies rather than randomly sprinkling in fish and bird anecdotes, which only served to distract from the main gist of the narrative, especially for the audiobook listener. I also felt there was too much time spent on lengthy examples of the behaviours of specific high-profile corporate monsters and individual chimps and baboons, and not enough time spent discussing behavioural/psychological theory. My attention kept wandering and I was itching to turn the audiobook off by the time I reached the epilogue. But then, that's also how animal ecology is taught in classrooms (example after example after example, ad nauseam), so it's no surprise that that's how it was presented here. In summary, it was okay.