Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Lyons, Dan

Verlag: Hachette Books, New York, 2018

Beschreibung

As new condition yellow boards/red spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Welcome to Your New Job; Introduction: Make a Duck; Epilogue: Can Zebras Fix What Unicorns Have Broken?; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; and Index. Illustrated with a repeating beginning of each chapter line drawing and a graph. "Dan Lyons's Lab Rats defies easy description. It is hilarious, but not funny. I sputtered laughing and choked crying (literally, not figuratively) as I read it. Yes, to an extreme, Lyons gives Silicon Valley the thrashing that it, alas, largely deserves. But in the final third of the book, he offers us an effectively illustrated way out -- an approach to work and business that puts people first, profitably serves customers, and makes the world a little bit better in the process." - Tom Peters, New York Times bestselling author of In Search of Excellence. "I loved Dan Lyons's book Disrupted. With Lab Rats, he takes his critique of the modern workplace to the next level, to show how Silicon Valley's sometimes disturbing ideas about how to treat employees now pervade many workplaces. This is a fascinating, thought-provoking, hilarious, and sometimes harrowing account of current work culture." - Gretchen Rubin, New York Times bestselling author. "Dan Lyons's book reveals the dark and twisted heart hidden inside the innovation economy. Also, it is hysterical." - Kara Swisher, Recode. "Simply marvelous with no reservations . Required reading for all Millennials who will finally get that they are being used and abused." - The San Diego Union-Tribune. "The best book about Silicon Valley today." - Los Angeles. "A must-read, not just in the real Silicon Valley, but also on Wall Street." - Mashable. "WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE HATE THEIR JOBS? Lab Rats exposes an epic, multi-trillion-dollar swindle on American workers being carried out by the new oligarchs of Silicon Valley, who have turned technology into a tool for oppressing workers, rather than empowering them. At a time of soaring corporate profits and plenty of HR lip service about "wellness," millions of workers -- in virtually every industry -- are deeply unhappy. Why did work become so miserable? Who is responsible? And does any company have a model for doing it right? For two years, Dan Lyons has ventured across America in search of answers. From the innovation-crazed headquarters of the Ford Motor Company, to a cult-like "Holocracy" workshop in San Francisco, and to corporate trainers who specialize in Legos, Lyons immersed himself in the often half-baked and frequently lucrative work of what passes for management science. He shows readers how new tools, workplace practices, and business modles championed by tech's empathy-impaired power brokers have shattered the social contract that once existed between companies and their employees. These dystopian beliefs -- often masked by pithy slogans like "We're a Team, Not a Family" -- have dire consequences: millions of workers are subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies, and even health risks. A few companies, however, get it right. With Lab Rats, Lyons makes a passionate plea for business leaders to understand this dangerous transformation, showing how profit and happy employees can indeed coexist." - from the inner front jacket flap.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Verlag: Hachette Books, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New