The story of the managers who want to become rats

A new plague has struck organizations; one so fantastic that it could have come out of Hollywood. Do you know those movies, in which you see perfectly decent people having ordinary lives and later show themselves as either zombies or aliens, devouring the innocent? Maybe the persons who write those stories have a history in organizations.

In 2003, a book came out in The Netherlands about how to become a rat. In the mean time, there are also workshops given on that subject and apparently they are fully booked. Turning people into rats is becoming big business (the book is translated in eight languages). The book and the workshops give people a bleak picture of organizational life. It points out that playing along in the organization only makes you a loser, while those who know how to play ...

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