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  • The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy

  • Digital Transformation with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler
  • By: Mark Schwartz
  • Narrated by: Erick Jason Martin
  • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)
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Summary

Mark Schwartz, author of leadership classics A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value, reveals a new (empowering) model for the often soul-shattering, frustrating, Kafkaesque nightmare we call bureaucracy. 

Through humor, a healthy dose of history and philosophy, and real-life examples from his days as a government bureaucrat, Schwartz shows IT leaders (and the whole of business) how to master the ways of the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler to create a lean, learning, and enabling bureaucracy. 

For anyone frustrated by roadblocks, irritated the business can't move fast enough, or suffering under the weight of crushing procedures, this book is for you. No matter your role, you need a playbook for bureaucracy. This is it. With this playbook, you can wield bureaucracy as a superpower and bust through it at the same time.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Mark Schwartz (P)2020 Mark Schwartz
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Long-winded, patronising, and chaotic

The ideas within are somewhat interesting, but the writing style with long tangents and frequent interruptions is irritating, patronising, and long-winded. The text is littered with interjectons and "playful" wordplays with the "editor", which disrupts the flow, muddles the underlying idea, and becomes unfunny almost immediately. Some concepts are glossed over without much detail, while others receive a ridiculously long and drawn out explanation of aspects which are painfully obvious. Overall mildly annoying and difficult to follow, purely because of the writing style.

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