The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

Corporations never actually mention 'money'; that would be vulgar. They prefer such words as 'turnover,' 'profit,' 'salary,' 'revenue,' 'budget,' 'premium,' and 'savings,' all much more refined.

When you're 'recruiting' people in temporary positions for the firm (short-term contracts, free-lancers, etc.) treat them well: remember, they're the only ones who actually do any work.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.