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The Ministry of Common Sense

How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate Bullshit

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The Ministry of Common Sense

By: Martin Lindstrom Company
Narrated by: Robert Fass
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A humorous yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves - and our companies - of the bureaucratic bottlenecks and red tape that plagues every office.

How often in your life do you spend time following a rule or a procedure that makes no sense, offers little or no advantage and slows you down in the process? In a world of work governed by a system of well-intentioned rules, that's something that happens all too often.

In this audiobook Martin Lindstrom - a global leader in branding and expert in organisational culture - takes you behind the scenes at companies which are paralyzed and demoralised by a breakdown in common sense. Lindstrom shares a five-step process for identifying and repairing these lapses, showing that restoring common sense always cuts costs, boosts engagement and increases customer retention.

The stories in The Ministry of Common Sense are entertaining, troubling, eye-opening and recognisable to anyone who works in or leads an organisation of any size. It's easy to get blinded to problems right in front of you - but setting up your own Ministry of Common Sense will mean less time wasted on unnecessary things, less mistakes and misunderstandings, and a better way of working for all.

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It’s difficult to score this audiobook. On the one hand it has a lot of truth, but if the cornerstone is that common sense is not too common, surely that is stating the bleedingly obvious.

As a business consultant for over 30 years, I’m often frustrated by bone-headed processes and business rules, but then fixing them with anything between and including cosmetic and radical surgery, puts food on our table.

So maybe for me the book has some important revelations but mostly preaches to the choir.

The story would benefit from having a more skilled narrator

True but …

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We're all so busy being busy. Have we forgotten how to be practicable and good humans!

Loved this fabulous book

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I wanted to enjoy this book and learn from it but I didn’t. It’s more frivolous than I expected and it also felt repetitive.

I wanted to but…

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Martin Lindstrom is very compelling when speaking about this topic or any topic really and the book is great but this narrator sounds like an AI Bot learning the language as he reads.

My first try at an audiobook, I’ll stick to the real thing.

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