{"id":77,"date":"2004-08-15T19:22:03","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T19:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/15\/espen_on_stupid\/"},"modified":"2004-08-15T19:22:03","modified_gmt":"2004-08-15T19:22:03","slug":"espen_on_stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Espen on Stupid Simplistic Management Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while there I thouht I was the only one who despaired for quality in management books.<br \/>\nBut then I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espen.com\/weblog\">Espen<\/a> making the following observation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the question remains: Why do stupid and simplistic management books &#8211; books that the thoughtful and well grounded managers I tend to talk to wouldn&#8217;t touch with a ten-foot grounded earth excavator &#8211; sell so well?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Espen uses <em>Who Moved My Cheese<\/em> as a case study of this genre. I&#8217;ve never read the book but have had the same reaction to many others I&#8217;ve seen. Read Espens piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espen.com\/weblog\/archives\/000108.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleeblog.com\/\">Bleeding Edge<\/a> for pointing me to Espen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while there I thouht I was the only one who despaired for quality in management books. But then I came across Espen making the following observation: But the question remains: Why do stupid and simplistic management books &#8211; books that the thoughtful and well grounded managers I tend to talk to wouldn&#8217;t touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}