A collection of more than 80 mostly satirical columns published between 1961 and 1980 when Roger was a corporate high flier living and working in Lausanne and Geneva, then briefly in England; and his subsequent incarnation as an expatriate writer and consultant in the South of France.
Foreword:
The way it was…
1. The anxiety game (or listen to Roger read this)
3. Management by absence
4. The consultant explosion (or listen to Roger read this)
6. Vocation vacations
7. Mammon and the muse
8. Decisions, decisions
9. Meetingmanship
10. The medium is the merchandise
11. Making your presents felt
12. Meanwhile, back at the conference
13. Fear and loathing at Doberman & Pinscher
14. Harry Toombs’ apocalypse
15. Management by rumour
16. Say ‘Shalom’ to Mr Yitz
17. Management by surprise
18. The swagman cometh
19. Standing up to the media
20. The selling of the business lunch
21. How to choose an advertising agency
22. But what have you done for us lately?
23. Introducing our very own cybernetic superstar
24. Madame Bellwether’s establishment
25. Physician, sell thyself
26. Focus Group Victorious
27. Management by accident
28. A crash-course in re-entry
29. When the headhunter calls
30. High flying aboard Management One
31. Fighting inflation at the word factory
32. Flower power in the executive suite
33. Cold sweat in St Tropez
34. Discussion Partners
35. Close encounters of the management kind
36. Are managers born under a lucky star?
37. Executive Santa
38. Small is beautiful
39. Executive star wars
40. Eavesdropping on the Sunday Club
41. Moonlighters anonymous
42. Exploring the semantic universe
43. Jaime Sevilla’s secret empire
44. Do you sincerely want to lose money?
45. In search of a management style
46. Reinventing the generalist
47. The middle-management menopause
48. Japanese management style
49. Yours Revealingly
50. Bizspeakmanship
51. It’s not what you say… It’s how you say it
52. Some survive, others thrive
53. All stressed up and nowhere to go
54. Finding time for time management
55. ‘I miss you too!’
56. Have expenses, will travel
57. The art of keeping out of touch
58. Much appreciated
59. Golfing holidays may handicap your career
60. Aren’t you rather young to be thinking of early retirement?
61. Land of milk and money
62. Games managements play
63. Power Play
64. Topless rules ok
65. Going up in smoke
66. It’s an ill wind
67. Soros strikes again
68. Banking woes
69. Paradise redeemed
70. Conference chic
71. How I never met Graham Greene
72. Loose connections
73. Le Coeur de filet
74. Don’t confuse me with the fax
75. All the help I can get
76. Writing well is the best revenge
77. Cold comfort calls
78. Let me sleep on it
79. I’m sorry, I’m not in today
80. Velvet idiom; iron fist
Afterword:
Even masters of the universe can have enemies…