Traction
Traction by Gino Wickman My rating: 1 of 5 stars I read this on my own time out of bitterness for my department not being included in the glorified book club (i.e. "leadership team") who read this book at work, so I will admit to going into it with a negative bias. That being said, it is not a poorly written or "bad" book, so I cannot fairly classify it as such, but it has the predictable eye-roll-inducing elements of all management ideology materials. It uses a bunch of catchy buzzwords to rephrase the same tautology of every other business management book in existence. It has all the out-of-touch ideas and grandiose promises that most management guides (and managers) have spouted since the beginning of modern business history. It uses pretty little phrases such as "free up the futures" to describe the process of firing employees. There are two pages worth of "EOS Worldwide Trademarked Terms" in the back of the book consisting of such ground