Introductory Notes
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- Part 1: A Fictional Not-So-Distant Future
Chapter 1: Wednesday Morning
Chapter 2: Wednesday Afternoon
Chapter 3: Wednesday Night
Chapter 4: Thursday Morning
Chapter 5: Thursday Night
- Part 2: The Nature of the Game
Chapter 6: You Are Here
Chapter 7: The Corporate Cave
Chapter 8: Growing Up
Chapter 9: Cynical Theories of Management
Chapter 10: Defining the Hierarchy (With Less Cynicism)
Chapter 11: Interviews, Induction, and Nonsense
Chapter 12: The Bad Economics of Pragmatism
Chapter 13: The Worse Economics of Idealism
Chapter 14: The Lonely Profit of Opportunism
Chapter 15: Faux Ownership—Managers and Owners
Chapter 16: The Cult of Hours
Chapter 17: Performance Reviews and Advancement Theater
Chapter 18: Your Company Doesn’t Care About You
- Part 3: The History of the Game
Chapter 19: Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
Chapter 20: Legacy—Ancient Corporations
Chapter 21: Influence—Medieval Corporations
Chapter 22: Gestalt—Mercantilism
Chapter 23: Barriers to Entry—Industrial Revolution
Chapter 24: Layered Organizations—Taylorism
Chapter 25: Ubiquity—Organized Labor
Chapter 26: Anachronism—Rise of Knowledge Work
- Part 4: How to Win the Game
Chapter 27: Succeeding in the Corporate World, Such as It Is
Chapter 28: Pragmatists Succeed with Alternate Narratives
Chapter 29: Idealists Succeed with Merged Identity
Chapter 30: Opportunists Become Other
Chapter 31: The Realpolitik Tragedy of Corporate Scrum
Chapter 32: The Programmer’s Escape Plan
Chapter 33: Avoiding the Delivery Trap
Chapter 34: Partnership and Transcending the Realpolitik Glass Ceiling
Chapter 35: Avoiding Carnival Cash
Chapter 36: The Art of No
Chapter 37: Advancement
Chapter 38: The Madness of it All
- Part 5: How to Stop Playing Games
Chapter 39: Where We Go from Here
Chapter 40: The Coming Crunch
Chapter 41: Studies in Success—Those Who’ve Already Won
Chapter 42: Building a Composite—Developer Ubermensch
Chapter 43: The Developer Ubermensch is a Businessperson
Chapter 44: Developers Becoming Efficiencers to Take Control
Chapter 45: Turning App Dev Firms into Efficiencer Firms
Chapter 46: Anatomy of the Efficiencer Firm
Chapter 47: Becoming an Efficiencer and Joining an Efficiencer Firm
Chapter 48: But How Do We Fix Non-Efficiencer Corporations?
Chapter 49: Concrete, Immediate Steps You Can Take to Become an Efficiencer
Chapter 50: Full Circle—The Fate of Pragmatists, Idealists, and Opportunists
Chapter 51: What This Looks Like, Long Term
What Now?
Appendix A
