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If You Want to Make God Really Laugh, Show Him Your Business Plan: The 101 Universal Laws of Business

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Wit and wisdom work in perfect harmony in this book. Plus an abundance of common sense, which is so often not commonly used! Full of fresh attitudes and ideas about how to think and behave differently in the business world that could, and in my opinon, should change basic business practices for ever. A dynamite book that makes you laugh at his footnotes whilst crying at the horrific examples of how not to run a business.

'Enlightened' is an understatement - this man must have a direct line to some greater power that we poor simple folk have not found. Buy this book, read it at least twice, make some notes and then give it to your CEO. If he/she has any sense that there is always a different way of doing things, this will excite and inspire change.

This guy writes with the wit and wisdom of Tom Peters and the hysterical observations and honesty of Dave Barry. Loved this book. I want more.

Reviewers and critics of Barry Gibbons often talk about his irreverent humor. As far as we're concerned, though, he's dead on! Even his title for the book shows it. Here's a book that talks about business in a way that we've always thought it should be run. Mr. Gibbons presents his ideas in 101 Universal Laws of Business, but in essence these just state what most of us mere mortals (i.e., without MBA) would call "common sense". He starts off with what he calls "Tests of Rightness" (no, not righteousness!) Already, we thought we could start making our own rules. Look, if it doesn't feel right, then it probably is a mistake, right? These are not namby-pamby "feel good" rules, but basic common sense. Mr. Gibbons presents all of these pieces of wisdom with with the kind of humor that makes reading a joy. We sped through this book nodding our heads in agreement, and holding our sides when we laughed too hard. Buy this book, read it, live it. You won't be sorry.

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This is a good business book for people who hate biz books or for those who are tired of lousy ones. Very readible,incredibly funny and very useful. Should make you some money.

This book provides lots of good stories and hands-on lessons, mainly on small things about management/leadership, i.e. "If the corporate 'grandfather' (the boss's boss) isn't part of the appraisal process, it isn't an appraisal process." Total it has 101 lessons. Isn't that great?

Net, I like it a lot. Recommend it to any mid-level manager who works in a mid-size or large company.

The management bookshelves are crowded these days with instant answers to age old management issues. Rarely does a book come along that contains as much common sense wrapped in style that is easily digestable.

Gibbons proposes 101 Universal Laws of Business stretching from the CIA Factor (Confusion from Implied Assumptions) to the absolute guarantee that what ever you have in your business plan is the one and only scenario that is guaranteed NOT to happen. Hey, even God designed the rhinoceros !! Probably not his best work, unless your another rhino.

This book proves that business can and should be fun,simple and full of common sense. You'll finish this book wishing you could work for Gibbons and even more importantly wishing you could manage like him. This book could help you get there !!

I've read several of the reviews on this book and decided to buy it based on the great 5 star rating. At this stage in finishing the book, I simply didn't see what people were so impressed with in the writing. There are a couple of good nuggets and the book is relatively short so that is the good news. Yes, there are shades of Tom Peters but why not read the original Peters instead of this book? Maybe his sense of humor didn't connect with me either since it did seem to connect with other readers. I've read several management and leadership books over the years and sadly this one is not worth revisiting once read for the first time.