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  • How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time
  • By: Martin Kihn
  • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
  • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)
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House of Lies

By: Martin Kihn
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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Summary

"Once upon a time, Corporate America paid certain people huge fees to tell organizations what they were doing wrong. These men and women really knew next to nothing. They trashed businesses, destroyed careers, and wasted time and money. They called themselves Management Consultants. I know them well. I was one of them. Welcome to the House of Lies."

When Martin Kihn joined a powerhouse New York consulting firm, he thought his job was to help organizations. In reality, the consultants spent precious work hours prowling for new clients, and offered little or no useful information. From power breakfasts with mind games to the screaming indignity of "Feedback Camp" in New Jersey, House of Lies reveals the truth about a "profession" that could threaten your job, your career, and your life... and even throws you some lifelines should the suits start circling your company.

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©2005 Martin Kihn (P)2012 Hachette Audio

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Bit of a struggle,

Bit of a struggle, get shoe dog instead that's a better story and doesn't seem bitter or have random segue ways

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Funnier than I was expecting.

Definitely worth listening all the way through - even the acknowledgements. The writer keeps up his dry sarcasm to the end, and as a Brit, I thoroughly enjoyed that. A good listen while pottering about. If you like W1A, or the Thick of It, I think you'll find this worth downloading. Pre incompetence and greed with some laugh out loud moments. Nice.

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How did it ever get published?

What disappointed you about House of Lies?

TOOOOOO long, too tedious, too badly written

Would you ever listen to anything by Martin Kihn again?

Under no circumstances

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He was ok but not particularly good

What character would you cut from House of Lies?

The author

Any additional comments?

Possibly the worst of the many Audible books I have bought

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