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

What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.

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

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.

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

although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself. ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.