The Corporate Menagerie - by Jim Milligan (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Just like with summiting Mount Everest, your career is a lifetime achievement that needs preparation, guidance, and the necessary tools to succeed.

Author Jim Milligan's book, The Corporate Menagerie: Office Predators on Parade, lays out how to recognize the following:

Healthy leaders vs. Toxic leaders

Healthy companies vs. Toxic companies

Healthy coworkers vs. Toxic coworkers

Healthy business practices vs. Toxic business practices

Unlike other business books, The Corporate Menagerie is easy to follow and relatable, with an amusing, fact-based narrative followed by valuable and engaging insights, key takeaways, and a character/archetype analysis at the end of each chapter.

If you've ever wondered, "What is a toxic work environment?" if your workplace has toxic leaders or business practices, or what factors cause a toxic business, then this book will give you the tools to identify these components. If you're looking for a new job or want to get out of a toxic workplace, you'll be guided into better understanding the critical aspects of a healthy company as well as knowing the red flags of a toxic workplace to look for as you assess a new position.

Whether you are just starting out in business, in the middle of your career, or retired with an unresolved understanding of your former workplace, The Corporate Menagerie will help arm you with every advantage and resource to ensure your journey goes as smoothly as possible.

Review Quotes

"Milligan's biting-but-inspirational debut blends insights about healthy leadership and management styles with a fable of corporate America . . . Drawing on a background in psychology, Milligan also breaks down the motivations and common behav-iors of each type (Coach, Pacesetter, Narcissist), all represented by different characters in the fictional companies . . . Milligan's care-ful and often amusing descriptions of the businesses and their interactions with one another do well to illustrate the functional and behavioral differences between toxic and healthy compa-nies . . . Readers with experience in the corporate world at every level will recognize these professional personalities and even see themselves in many of them, and while The Corporate Menagerie offers a clear-eyed dramatis personae introducing the kind of people readers are likely to meet, plus a survey of familiar and preventable workplace culture problems, it also shows readers how they deserve to be treated and the kind of behavior they shouldn't tolerate in their professional lives . . . Professionals looking for a cohesive, accessible guide to understanding person-alities at work will find Milligan's refreshing debut useful." -Booklife Reviews

"Milligan's business fable-a not entirely fictitious tale of the marketplace-dramatizes the differences between a healthy cor-porate culture and a toxic one . . . The author populates this tale, based on real events, with characters symbolizing various corpo-rate personalities and management styles . . . Milligan's account is unfailingly clear, written in perfectly plain, accessible prose." -Kirkus Reviews

"A (supposedly) true story about two companies bidding for a lighting project for a small city that examines toxic and healthy work cultures using a storytelling approach with management principles summaries at the end of each chapter...By focusing on "the pathologies of low-functioning and high-functioning managers," Milligan offers a narrow, albeit important, focus on corporate efficiency...the insights into toxic work environments will resonate with many employees." - IndieReader Reviews