TOP DRAWER BOOK REVIEW
by
HL Carpenter
You Can’t Win A Fight With Your Boss
by Tom Markert
ISBN 0-06-077662-5
146 pages; hardcover; $14.95
HarperCollins, Australia, 2005
You Can’t Win A Fight With Your Boss is only one of the 56 rules for success in this pocket-sized book. Oddly, it’s number nine. Not that it matters. The eight that come before and the 47 that come after are all clichés of the same order, which is to say none of them are more original or enlightening than the others.
There are rules in conflict with each other (Put in the Hours vs. Beat Stress Back). There are multiple rules repeating the same message (No One is Entitled to Anything! and You Are on Your Own, Baby!). There are the laughably obvious rules (Stay Healthy). When you cut through them all, You Can’t Win A Fight With Your Boss could be condensed into nine words: Work hard, watch your back, be nice to others.
You Can’t Win A Fight With Your Boss is tired, canned advice doled out in bite-sized bits. Do yourself a favor and pick a more worthy opponent.
Review originally published November 2005.
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HL Carpenter, an experienced investor and a CPA, specializes in reader friendly financial and tax topics for individuals and small businesses, and publishes Top Drawer Ink, a newsletter that's chock full of humor and common sense information.
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