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  • The Stupidity Paradox

    The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work

    by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer ...
    Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause organisational collapse, financial meltdown and technical disaster. And there are countless, more everyday examples of organisations accepting the dubious, the absurd and the downright idiotic, from unsustainable management fads to the cult of leadership or an over-reliance on brand and image. And yet a dose of stupidity can be useful and ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • The Wellness Syndrome

    by Andre Spicer, Carl Cederström ...
    Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome.In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederström and André Spicer argue that the ever-present pressure to maximize our wellness has started to work against us, making us feel worse and provoking us to withdraw into ourselves. The Wellness ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Art of Less

    How to Focus on What Really Matters at Work

    by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer ...
    Achieve more by doing less…At work we often feel weighed down by an excess of initiatives, meetings, training and targets. Over-enthusiastic executives, interfering consultants and demanding stakeholders often get in the way of doing the 'real work'. This leaves us feeling overwhelmed but underproductive.The Art of Less offers ideas for how to create a more effective and efficient organization by ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Business Bullshit

    by André Spicer ...
    Our organizations are flooded with empty talk. We are constantly "going forward" to lands of "deliverables", stopping off on the "journey" to "drill down" into "best practice". Being an expert at using management speak has become more important in corporate life than delivering long lasting results. The upshot is that meaningless corporate jargon is killing our organizations.In this book, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Art of Less

    How to Focus on What Really Matters at Work

    by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer ...
    * SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2026*Achieve more by doing less…At work we often feel weighed down by an excess of initiatives, meetings, training and targets. Over-enthusiastic executives, interfering consultants and demanding stakeholders often get in the way of doing the 'real work'. This leaves us feeling overwhelmed but underproductive.The Art of Less offers ideas for how to create ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Contesting the Corporation

    Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations

    by Peter Fleming, André Spicer ...
    In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Originally published in 2007, Contesting the Corporation counters this view by showing that today's corporations are driven by political struggle, power plays and attempts to resist control. Building on a wide range of theoretical sources, Fleming and ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement

    A Year Inside the Optimization Movement

    by Carl Cederström, André Spicer ...
    Authors are highly promotable and will visit US to coincide with publicationAuthors have already delivered a TEDx talk about the bookThe Guardian and Huffington Post have already featured pieces about the research undertaken for this book. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Metaphors We Lead By

    Understanding Leadership in the Real World

    Edited by Mats Alvesson, André Spicer ...
    We live in a leadership-obsessed society. The result is that we assume nearly any social or economic ill can be mended through better leadership. Sometimes, this commitment to leadership is followed by hero worshipping, wishful thinking and misplaced hope.Seeking to understand the faith we place in leadership, the authors draw on a number of in-depth studies of managers trying to "do" leadership. ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • A Companion to Film Noir

    by Helen Hanson, Andre Spicer ...
    An authoritative companion that offers a wide-ranging thematic survey of this enduringly popular cultural form and includes scholarship from both established and emerging scholars as well as analysis of film noir's influence on other media including television and graphic novels.Covers a wealth of new approaches to film noir and neo-noir that explore issues ranging from conceptualization to cross ... Read more

    $231.95 USD

  • The Corporation

    A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook

    Edited by Grietje Baars, Andre Spicer ...
    The corporation has become an increasingly dominant force in contemporary society. However, comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the concept of the corporation is often restricted, or limited to one disciplinary approach. This handbook brings together the cutting-edge scholarship, expertise and insight of leading scholars in a wide range of disciplines, notably management studies, law, history, ... Read more

    $137.79 USD

  • Managing ‘Human Resources’ by Exploiting and Exploring People’s Potentials

    Edited by Mikael Holmqvist, Andre Spicer ...
    Series Book 37 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    Organizations are under constant pressure to be ambidextrous. They must be able to exploit existing processes, routines and systems at the same time as they must engage in exploration through playfulness, relaxed control and experimentation. We know little about the human costs and challenges of ambidexterity. In this volume we explore the impact of ambidextrous organizations on individuals' ... Read more

    $147.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Business Bullshit

    by Andre Spicer ...
    Narrated by Richard Lyddon ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    Our organizations are flooded with empty talk. We are constantly "going forward" to lands of "deliverables", stopping off on the "journey" to "drill down" into "best practice". Being an expert at using management speak has become more important in corporate life than delivering long lasting results. The upshot is that meaningless corporate jargon is killing our organizations. In this book, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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