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A review by x0pherl
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons
2.0
At its best this book is a painfully accurate, if cruel, rendition of the tech industry as a whole (Lyons was a writer for Silicon Valley -- picture a slightly more highbrow version of its satire). Here's his takedown of DISC and other personality assessment tools used by many corporations, it'll give you a sense of what he does throughout the book.
At his worst, Lyons comes across as a curmudgeon who's unable to adapt to a new environment. He complains that tech focuses on culture fit to the extent that it has no diversity, but also laments the loss of a newsdesk culture where he could tell dirty jokes and call his boss an asshole.
Anyhow, my rating aside, the book was fun; and I swallowed it up quickly. It's worth a read if you're in the industry.
Managers, people like Zack, get the same training that I’m getting, but then they go to an extra class where they learn how to use DISC when they are managing people. Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.
At his worst, Lyons comes across as a curmudgeon who's unable to adapt to a new environment. He complains that tech focuses on culture fit to the extent that it has no diversity, but also laments the loss of a newsdesk culture where he could tell dirty jokes and call his boss an asshole.
Anyhow, my rating aside, the book was fun; and I swallowed it up quickly. It's worth a read if you're in the industry.