Reviews for Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey into Organizational Darkness

The average rating for Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey into Organizational Darkness based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-10-23 00:00:00 Louis Van Aardt This book is difficult to read, and not only because it tells a horror story of how businesses maintain a 'check your conscience at the door' model, justifying any sort of abuse in the holy name of profit. It's also extremely technical. But if you can wade through the psychobabble, you can be forced to conclusions you might not want to come to. I know of at least one person who quit a job based on identifying the procedures at a medical clinic with the models in the book. The author is a psychiatrist, and in one of his books (it may be this one), he describes how people at medical establishments come to see themselves as 'gatekeepers', priding themselves on not permitting 'unworthy' people to get health care. He also points out that narratives of austerity and sacrifice ('We can't AFFORD to help these people') often fall apart after disasters. Resources are found to help the victims of disasters: but not to prevent them becoming the victims of disasters. This has been generally true, up till a few years ago: but unfortunately, the rot is now infiltrating into disaster relief: the prophets of austerity now also (sometimes) argue that we can't afford to help the victims of disasters, either.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-11-18 00:00:00 Jeffrey Gill Started off really well, but towards the end it involved too many basic things that a presenter should know, I'm not saying its not a good book, I just thought it was too much of a presenter 101 for my liking.