You get suspicious when the book starts with 3 pages of praise for the book. from people you've never heard of. Then a lot of self-grandification of the author and explaining why he is so smart and young (it will later be shown that he has very little experience). Then some bold claims why he has revolutionized the management concept (including making some dubious claims to differentiate the line and project management roles).
He then goes on about complexity theory et al, which is stuff any aspiring MBA learns about (in fact, the whole book feels like a tentative try to create a 101 book for a bachelor management course, including casting doubt on all previous approaches (with very flimsy understanding of them).
The carries on with anecdotes and references (probably to make it look "scientific") but the text are naive and the conclusions are either obvious or not supported by the underlying material. In fact, it feels more like a university X-paper that hasn't been reviewed…
You can miss this book without missing anything meaningful.
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