Forewords
By Robert C. Martin
I hate management books. I do. People give them to me all the time saying: “You should read this one, it changed my life!” These books are all about 150 pages. They have 14 point type, double-spaced. They have lots of pictures. They have titles like: Open Locker Management, Management by not Managing, First Clean All The Glasses, Now Discover Your Knees, The Power of Positive Penalties, and Tnemeganam! They sit on my shelves. I sometimes read them in the John.
They all tell the same story. The author is always some guy who was running a company and failing horribly. When he reaches “bottom” (remember, I read them in the John) he has a critical insight that no human has ever had before. When he describes this idea ...
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