**Brilliant**, *honest*, deeply insightful, hilarious, but rather cynical primer on *your personal career* and *business practices as experienced in the real world*. It's ultimate intent is as in "How To Succeed In Business By Really Trying". The only catch is that what is recommended to be tried is mostly a (numbered list) program of fairly skeptical/cynical approaches and actions. To be fair, putting oneself in the other's shoes (your boss, your subordinate, Top Mgmt, etc. ) by way of exaggeration is one of his most frequent rhetorical devices, and used to very comic true-humor effect. ***A princely effort. *** **Yet, it is a Great Read, and well worth the price and a lot of searching if you can't find the 1986 First Edition at a used bookstore. ** The later edition is OK, but gets bogged down by a dumb-down overlay. (A purple dinosaur for the Biz World; sounds like the pub forced his hand on the reissue. ) ***The best book of business management criticism since Townsend's UP THE ORGANIZATION***, except not just for top management, but for all us others.