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Book Review
Why Buy In?
The Survival Primer for Free Thinkers in the Stereotypical
Business World
OutskirtsPress.com - 2005 (104 pages in
paperback)
Author
T.B. Fisher
ISBN 10: 1-932672-86-9
Why Buy In? is a short but deeply reflective book written
for those who have consciously chosen not to become another yellow pencil in
the modern business hierarchy. T. B. Fisher has written this book to inform and
encourage leaders that they can remain true to their own values and
individuality without “buying-in” to the command and control corporate
environment. Fisher does this in an amusing way that often leaves you to ponder
his convictions long after the book is closed.
Why Buy In? is formatted to be read one page per week for
an entire 52 week year. Each weekly page offers a few philosophical paragraphs
that distill the wisdom of T.B. Fisher from his years of surviving the
“international corporate circus”. The end of each page offers a weekly personal
statement validating positive principles or opportunities for growth. Also
buried within the book like jewels to be discovered, are Fisher’s own 12
steps to business independence. For example, on Week 34 Fisher
cautions the reader not to let strong morals and unwavering ideals grow into
inflexibility and the appearance of being a control freak. The concluding
weekly personal statement ends by affirming, “My eighth step is to assure
myself everyday that my quest to maintain my straight path of ideals doesn’t
become a narrow path of one-way thinking”.
If you consider yourself a free thinker, this is a book you will
definitely want to read. It will make you chuckle, and it will make you nod
your head and say, “that is right on”. But perhaps the biggest benefit of the
book is that it will remind you why you celebrate your individuality and
have chosen not to sacrifice your true soul to fit into a dysfunctional
corporate world.
weLEAD rating – highly recommended
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