How Not To Run A Company — Corporate Satire Ebook by Julian Mercer
How Not To Run A Company is a darkly funny corporate satire ebook by Julian Mercer — a precise, unflinching account of workplace dysfunction, bad management, and leadership failure as it actually happens inside real organisations.
The Corporate Satire Ebook for Everyone Who Has Survived a Company
This is not a cartoon of office culture. It is a mirror. Every episode of micromanagement, every reorganisation that changes nothing, every toxic boss who mistakes fear for loyalty — documented with the kind of dry wit that only comes from having been there. If you have ever sat in a meeting wondering how everything could be so organised and so wrong at the same time, this book was written for you.
How Not To Run A Company follows Richard Pemberton — a CEO whose confidence is inversely proportional to his self-awareness. Through his company's decline, Julian Mercer documents the full anatomy of corporate dysfunction: the all-hands presentation with 47 slides and zero follow-through, the values statement that exists only on mugs and lanyards, the performance review designed to protect the manager rather than develop the employee, the reorganisation that produces a new org chart and the same problems with different names.
Who This Book Is For
This workplace satire ebook is written for the people who kept things running while others held the meetings. For the manager who spent more energy managing their boss's perception than their team's reality. For the consultant brought in to name what everyone already knew. For the HR professional who witnessed every culture breakdown, filed every report, and watched nothing change. For the director given a mandate and no authority. For the senior leader who survived their own board. For the employee who left quietly, professionally, and with a resignation letter that said nothing of what they actually witnessed.
If you have worked somewhere where the leadership confused control with vision — where results were demanded from people who were given neither trust nor information — this book gives language to what you endured.
What the Book Covers
The book covers: the anatomy of a failed reorganisation, chapter by chapter; a taxonomy of dysfunctional leadership archetypes; why the most dangerous person in any company is not the incompetent one; the lifecycle of a values statement from inspiration to wall decoration; how consulting engagements function as organisational absolution; the performance review as ritual, not instrument; the exit interview, and why nobody says what they actually think; the meeting that should have been an email — and wasn't.
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About Julian Mercer
Julian Mercer spent twenty years inside organisations — observing, documenting, and keeping notes. Not as a diary. As a case study in how intelligent organisations make decisions that, in retrospect, were entirely predictable. How Not To Run A Company is the result of those two decades of observation.
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