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House of Lies

How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time

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House of Lies

By: Martin Kihn
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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The basis for the Don Cheadle series currently available on Netflix, an accurate and darkly hilarious behind-the-scenes look at the twisted world of management consulting.

“[A] highly intelligent and deeply funny debut memoir skewers a segment of the economy that nearly every white-collar worker has learned to fear and loathe: consultancies.” —Publishers Weekly

Once upon a time in Corporate America paid certain people huge fees to tell organizations what they were doing wrong. These men and women really knew next to nothing. They trashed business, destroyed careers, and wasted time and money. They called themselves Management Consultants. . . .

When Martin Kihn joined a powerhouse New York consulting firm, he thought his job was to help organizations. In reality, the consultants spent precious work hours prowling for new clients, and offered little or no useful information. From power breakfasts with mind games to the screaming indignity of “Feedback Camp” in New Jersey, House of Lies reveals the truth about a “profession” that could threaten your job, your career, and your life . . . and even throws you some lifelines should the suits start circling your company.

“With sharp wit, consultant Kihn tears down myths surrounding the highly profitable and revered management-consulting industry. . . . No activity avoids Kihn’s scathing pen, including his highly critical analysis of business books.” —Booklist

“Exceedingly smart and funny . . . Kihn’s breezy, Jay McInerney-inspired writing renders the damnable daily life of the management consultant precisely, often hilariously.” —Salon.com

“Funny, lucid, and lacerating.” —Graydon Carter, editor-in-chief, Vanity Fair
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Definitely worth listening all the way through - even the acknowledgements. The writer keeps up his dry sarcasm to the end, and as a Brit, I thoroughly enjoyed that. A good listen while pottering about. If you like W1A, or the Thick of It, I think you'll find this worth downloading. Pre incompetence and greed with some laugh out loud moments. Nice.

Funnier than I was expecting.

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Bit of a struggle, get shoe dog instead that's a better story and doesn't seem bitter or have random segue ways

Bit of a struggle,

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What disappointed you about House of Lies?

TOOOOOO long, too tedious, too badly written

Would you ever listen to anything by Martin Kihn again?

Under no circumstances

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He was ok but not particularly good

What character would you cut from House of Lies?

The author

Any additional comments?

Possibly the worst of the many Audible books I have bought

How did it ever get published?

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