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Review of Goldilocks on Management: 27 Revisionist Fairy Tales for Serious Managers
Gather 'round, kids. It's story time. Goldilocks on
Management: 27 Revisionist Fairy Tales for Serious Managers
(Amacom, $21.95) may be the only business book you read with an
actual smile this year. How can you resist Gloria Gilbert Mayer and
Thomas Mayer's "The Princess and the Pea," where a
picky prince finds his mate via the "Princess Identification
System" (i.e., 20 mattresses and a monogrammed pea) he
purchases from a Hammacher Schlimmer catalog. The lesson? Verify
credentials, of course.
The Mayers follow their slightly cheeky tales with real-world
applications and stories, so you don't have to feel naughty
because you're enjoying the read. And where else will you learn
a lesson from the seven dwarves turning Snow White's glass
coffin into an amusement park, or the wolf and Little Red Riding
Hood's involuntary merger?