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Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo by Dan Hill, Howard Moskowitz, et al

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Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo by Dan Hill
Published by Sensory Logic on September 15, 2021
Genres: Humorous
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 156

Need a laugh to get through your workday?

You’ve come to the right place. Ambrose Bierce’s classic The Devil’s Dictionary took on life in general. Now a century later, it’s time to lampoon the business world. There’s no richer target than being told to think outside the box by leaders spouting off about synergy, teamwork, and innovation while at the same time exhorting you to stay in your swim lane. If as famed business guru Peter Drucker writes, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” then we’ve been asked to eat a dog’s breakfast at work for far too long!

A little truth in every joke.

Join the fun as the two lead authors and 50 other contributors offer their humorous take on how the workplace really operates. With almost 600 diabolical definitions to enjoy, you're sure to find plenty to smile about.

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Book Trailer

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About Dan Hill

Dan Hill, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized expert on the role of emotions in business, politics, sports, and popular culture, and has given keynote speeches in over 25 countries.

He's the founder and president of Sensory Logic, Inc., which pioneered the use of facial coding to scientifically capture and quantify emotions in business beginning in 1998 and has in the years since done consulting work for over half of the world's top 100 business-to-consumer (B2C) oriented companies. Dan is the recipient of seven U.S. patents related to facial coding scoring systems and is also a certified Facial Action Coding System (FACS) practitioner.

Among Dan's nine books is Emotionomics, which was an Advertising Age top 10 must-read selection and features a foreword by Sam Simon, co-creator of The Simpsons. His writings were also noted with commendation in three editions of The Best American Essays. Luminaries who have endorsed Dan's works run the gamut from Seth Godin, Dan Ariely, Daniel Pink, Faith Popcorn, Jeffrey Gitomer, Martin Lindstrom, Paco Underhill, Joe Pine, Faith Popcorn, and Marti Barletta, to Philip Kotler, who called Emotionomics "a revelation." Jeanne Moos of CNN and Mary Carillo both endorsed Dan's later book, Famous Faces Decoded.

Dan’s TV appearances have ranged from ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC’s “The Today Show,” and PBS, to The Tennis Channel. Dan was also a regular guest on PBS's "Mental Engineering" show, hailed by Bill Moyers as "the most interesting weekly half hour of social commentary and criticism on television." Besides front-page coverage in The New York Times, other print and digital coverage of Dan’s work has included: Allure, China Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Politico, Time, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. Nowadays he hosts the podcast "Dan Hill's EQ Spotlight," which appears on the New Books Network (NBN), the world's largest book review platform with over 1.7 million downloads monthly.

Dan received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, following studies at St. Olaf College, Oxford University, and Brown University. Along with his wife, Karen Bernthal, he lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Palm Desert, California.

About Howard Moskowitz

Howard Moskowitz is a legendary product market researcher, experiential psychologist, and inventor of world-class market research technologies used by virtually every company that matters. Howard earned his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University.

In 2004, he was the subject of a New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell, “The Ketchup Conundrum,” which became the basis for Gladwell’s TED talk entitled “Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce.”

In 2014, Howard founded Mind Genomics Associates to investigate how people think about aspects of their daily lives.

In addition to over 400 scientific articles about the minds of consumers, Howard has written/edited 28 books, a roster that features the very popular book Selling Blue Elephants.

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An Interview with Dan Hill

What Does Being a Kelly Girl, Bacteria, and Being-on-Hold Have in Common? Find Out Here!

Is there a movie that best fits or parallels what this book is about?

The movie “9 to 5” starring Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda might qualify. For one thing, I recently learned that the script was based on the “war stories” of female office workers at National City Bank when Fonda went to Cleveland to interview them. I remember working for a while as a “Kelly Girl” and getting assigned to the HQ of a retailer where I was part of an otherwise all-female typing pool while ringing the pool were glass-enclosed offices, occupied entirely by guys. Blah, Blah, Blah is a crowdsourced book, with over a dozen female contributors of witty definitions revealing the often sexist reality underlying office lingo.

What inspired you to write this book? Was there a “eureka” moment?

There was, indeed. I host a podcast called “Dan Hill’s EQ Spotlight” on the New Books Network, the world’s largest book review platform. Two weeks in a row, separate guest authors mentioned that the estimate is that about 25% of all managers are bullies. I woke up one morning after the second of these interviews and thought, “How is that possible?” That shouldn’t be tolerated. Far too many lives are being negatively impacted. So at heart Blah, Blah, Blah is a call for reform—let’s get more fair, emotionally intelligent (EQ) managers on the job!

What’s your favorite entry in Blah, Blah, Blah?

Hard to choose a favorite child, even when many of the entries are step-children in that they were provided by the book’s many contributors. I think we can all relate to (the promise of) AUTONOMY: Being micromanaged only part-time. Or to COMPANY CULTURE: Bacteria that grows when people are forced to work together. As a customer, who can’t also relate to YOUR CALL IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US: And now here in full, while you wait, is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Does Blah, Blah, Blah aim more for the funny bone or the jugular vein?

There were some pointed diabolical definitions submitted for this book, whether by the various contributors, or my co-author, Howard Moskowitz, or myself. Anything purely mean-spirited I rejected, however, as it’s a book of humor. If you can’t make your point with some levity, then it didn’t belong in this book. After all, the role of humor is to bring some pleasure into a person’s day. Humor can also open us up to being receptive to new possibilities and improvements, such as in the workplace. So my ultimate goal here was to offer jokes full of surprises and meaning.

Do you have a worse-boss story of your own to tell?

I sure do. For a brief while, I worked for a woman running a public relations firm in NYC. Soon after I joined the small company I realized I was so tense I couldn’t turn off my alarm clock in the morning without facing it straight on. In other words, I couldn’t turn or bend my neck even 5 degrees one way or another. I confided my tension to a coworker, and she blithely replied: “Oh, everybody gets sick here on their second week on the job.” Did I mention that the staff’s turnover rate was above 300% annually? I quickly added to the total!

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Giveaway!

Grand Prize: Signed copy of Blah, Blah, Blah: A Snarky Guide to Office Lingo + a copy also of my other recent book Famous Faces Decoded: A Guidebook for Reading Others.(one winner)

Runner-Up Prize: a signed copy of Blah, Blah, Blah (one winner) (USA only) (ends Oct 22)

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