In today’s global reality of ever-changing cultural values, any organization must move proactively and aggressively into customizing its international operation. If it doesn’t modify the organization’s structure and processes to stay aligned with cultural values, norms and trends occurring in the global expansion environment, the consequences can be disastrous! Redesigning an operational model for global success is easy. Redesigning it the right way is a lot more challenging! It takes the application of thoughtful research, creative thinking, and intelligent analysis. Additionally, it takes a flexible and global mind-set. You must throw away all false beliefs, biases, prejudices, or assumptions that you and your organization possess—finding and strategically planning on a foundation of realistic and measurable knowledge. All the information you need is readily available; it’s just a matter of locating, linking, and trending the data for future success. This outstanding book—written by two of the world’s most renowned writers, speakers, and organizational advisors—breaks it all down for you; giving you and your organization the ability to succeed today, and the power to predict cultural trends for tomorrow, in the global environment!

A New York Times Notable Book • Daily Beast Best Nonfiction of 2014 • Inc. Magazine's Most Thought-Provoking Books of the Year “Man is born free, but he is everywhere in cubicles.” How did we get from Scrooge’s office to “Office Space”? From bookkeepers in dark countinghouses to freelancers in bright cafes? What would the world be like without the vertical file cabinet? What would the world be like without the office at all? In Cubed, Nikil Saval chronicles the evolution of the office in a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is. Drawing on the history of architecture and business, as well as a host of pop culture artifacts—from Mad Men to Dilbert (and, yes, The Office)—and ranging in time from the earliest clerical houses to the surprisingly utopian origins of the cubicle to the funhouse campuses of Silicon Valley, Cubed is an all-encompassing investigation into the way we work, why we do it the way we do (and often don’t like it), and how we might do better.

Introduction: being consumed -- Practicing commodity. Binge religion: social life in extremity ; The spirit in the cubicle: a religious history of the American office -- Revising ritual. Ritualism revived: from scientia ritus to consumer rites ; Purifying America: rites of salvation in the soap campaign -- Imagining celebrity. Sacrificing Britney: celebrity and religion in America ; The celebrification of religion in the age of infotainment -- Valuing family. Religion and the authority in American parenting ; Kardashian nation: work in America's klan ; Rethinking corporate freedom -- Corporation as sect. On the origins of corporate culture ; Do not tamper with the clues: notes on Goldman Sachs -- Conclusion: family matters

A collection of comic strips from the popular series skewering corporate life features the antics of the deadpan engineer and his clever menagerie of talking animals, including Dogbert, Catbert, and Ratbert

This is a business fiction, but . . . the stories are based on real life events. Michael, a young, enthusiastic engineer in his first full-time job, narrates life with this worker bee colleagues in the world of cubicles. The colleagues are a diverse group of individuals one is likely to find in such a setting. Early in the book a mysterious character appears to engage Michael in dialogues about what is going on in the Archangel Corporation. This mysterious individual provides perspective and occasional advice to Michael on what he is experiencing and how he might engage it going forward. Everyone who has worked in an American corporation can identify with Michaels and the groups experiences and gain some perspective on the alternatives during the journey.