- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Capstone; 1 edition (Mar 18 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1841124621
- ISBN-13: 978-1841124629
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 358 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,180,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"…It is certainly wacky, irreverent and very funny…" (Professional Manager, May 2003)
"…very amusing and painfully honest look at the foibles and failures of business today…" (Business Executive, April 2003)
"…This is a really interesting and entertaining book…" (Marketing, 5 June 2003)
Product Description
In Warning: May Contain Nuts we are once again pleasantly immersed in the world which is Barry Gibbons. Following on from his best selling Dream Merchants and Howboys, Barry Gibbons, former CEO of Burger King and iconoclast, gives a hilarious and insightful account of how and why businesses get it wrong!
Through a series of droll vignettes, Gibbons takes us on a romp-roaring ride through the next 999 years of corporate mayhem and madness - bad behaviours which affect everyone - from the street sweeper to the CEO in his private jet. Because we're not talking about little blips on a profit and loss statement in a poxy sector of some niche industry.
Business has far more an impact on our daily lives than government or politics. About half of the world's biggest economies are now corporations. From Enron's attempt to bring back the eighties with their excessive greed to Vodafone's loosing millions (that didn't actually exist in the first place) - Gibbons rips into the antics of these once trusted companies. So is it all doom and gloom? Are we destined for failure because of the frolicking these companies get up to - at our expense!? Are there any lessons or optimistic quick turn-around plans of action that Gibbons can share with us? Not really. But Warning: May Contain Nuts makes for some highly entertaining reading. And for the clever among us the lessons are implied. Just don't be daft.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Funny,
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This review is from: Warning!: May Contain Nuts! absolutely the first definitive review of the incompetent, inadvertent and occasionally illegal world of business in the new Millenium. (Paperback)
His observations are funny. I totally agree with all of them.
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To the point, but somewhat heavy-handed,
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This review is from: Warning!: May Contain Nuts! absolutely the first definitive review of the incompetent, inadvertent and occasionally illegal world of business in the new Millenium. (Paperback)
A set of 48 essays loosely concerned with the rights and wrongs of big business. It is sometimes hilarious, deliberately vulgar and occasionally tedious. There are overtones of Bill Bryson and even of Douglas Adams, but Gibbons can not sustain their standard. The valid points that the author makes are, for my taste, rather heavy-handed. It is a reasonable example of business humor with an edge, by a former CEO of a large corporation.
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3.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Funny,
By P. Gungor - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Warning!: May Contain Nuts! absolutely the first definitive review of the incompetent, inadvertent and occasionally illegal world of business in the new Millenium. (Paperback)
His observations are funny. I totally agree with all of them.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
To the point, but somewhat heavy-handed,
By Bill Godfrey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Warning!: May Contain Nuts! absolutely the first definitive review of the incompetent, inadvertent and occasionally illegal world of business in the new Millenium. (Paperback)
A set of 48 essays loosely concerned with the rights and wrongs of big business. It is sometimes hilarious, deliberately vulgar and occasionally tedious. There are overtones of Bill Bryson and even of Douglas Adams, but Gibbons can not sustain their standard. The valid points that the author makes are, for my taste, rather heavy-handed. It is a reasonable example of business humor with an edge, by a former CEO of a large corporation.
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