{"id":7341,"date":"2014-08-11T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=7341"},"modified":"2014-08-11T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:08:16","slug":"house-of-lies-how-management-consultants-steal-your-watch-and-then-tell-you-the-time-martin-kihn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2014\/08\/11\/house-of-lies-how-management-consultants-steal-your-watch-and-then-tell-you-the-time-martin-kihn\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Lies. How management consultants steal your watch and then tell you the time. Martin Kihn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Abandoned_house_-_geograph.org.uk_-_212421.jpg');\"  href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Abandoned_house_-_geograph.org.uk_-_212421.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"English: Abandoned house. The derelict house l...\" alt=\"English: Abandoned house. The derelict house l...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6e\/Abandoned_house_-_geograph.org.uk_-_212421.jpg\/75px-Abandoned_house_-_geograph.org.uk_-_212421.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"56\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>House of Lies. How management consultants steal your watch and then tell you the time. <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.martykihn.com');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Martin Kihn\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.martykihn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Martin Kihn<\/a>. 2005. ISBN 0446576565. Quite a hilarious book that was the inspiration for\u00a0 House of Lies the TV series.\u00a0 Yet the TV series is funnier than this book.\u00a0 I appreciated the dictionary of consultants words and tongue in cheek\u00a0 quick summaries of the Worlds Best business books. 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Yet the TV series is funnier than this book.  I appreciated the dictionary of consultants words and tongue in cheek  quick summaries of the Worlds Best business books. The portrayals are so gritty and  honest that you wonder how the industry of consulting could sustain itself.  Yet it did for many years.   Its an easy book to read and good for a cross country flight.  But get it out of the library &#8211; not a keeper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2096,2094,2092,2097,756,2091,2095,2093],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7532,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions\/7532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}