Book Review: Office Superman

March 11, 2007 · Filed Under For the love of HR 

076241971701_aa240_sclzzzzzzz_.jpgYou’ll have to bear with me here for a few weeks. Not only is college basketball in full swing but I have been going through each of the eight books I have on my bedside as partially read and finally finishing them. Some of them are not related to business but I will try to write reviews for each one that makes sense for this blog.

So this book I read recently is called Office Superman: Make Yourself Indispensable in the Workplace.

So this book definitely has some good points to it. In fact, all of the points he makes throughout are really good in and of themselves. Especially for all of those people who are looking at moving up or being superstars in their industry.

The only problem is that this book is so full of Superman analogies, it drove me insane. Maybe if I were more into comic books, I would be a little more entertained by the whole premise of comparing Superman to being a great worker over and over again. I think this book goes overboard on the whole thing to the point of distraction.

Which I think is unfortunate since, as I said, it has a lot of great points buried beneath Superman analogies.


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