Despite quality initiatives, marketing strategies and compensation schemes designed to motivate employees, the world of corporate America is still more like a fairy tale than reality.
(PRWEB) October 10, 2005 -- Long-time semiconductor industry executive R.T. Talasek compares the similarities of our daily grind in business to the world of fantasy in his new book, "Alice in Corporate Wonderland: Down the Long Hallway." What he observes is that the story of old is frighteningly similar to today’s corporate culture.
The world knows and loves the character created by Lewis Carroll in "Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland." Over 150 years later, in the world’s first corporate fairy tale, "Alice in Corporate Wonderland," the title character is all grown up, a freshly minted Ivy League MBA, and ready for the real world, or so she thinks. She is thrust into the world of corporate America, much to her own surprise and chagrin. Still wide-eyed, idealistic, and a little spoiled, she quickly finds out that the real world is nothing like what she learned about in school.
The book follows Alice as she explores this new, fantastic, and somewhat insane world of corporate programs, policies, and self-aggrandizing executives, manifested as a menagerie of familiar characters from the original work of her childhood. A few surprise guests unknown to Carroll also appear, although they seem quite at home in the world of quality initiatives, marketing strategies, and compensation schemes.
R.T. (Tom) Talasek has spent the last 25 years in various technical, sales, and general management roles in the semiconductor industry for various companies, ranging from multibillion dollar international conglomerates to small start-ups. Talasek received his Ph. D. in 1993 from the University of North Texas. While he has published extensively in technology, Alice represents his first business effort, a product of many years of experiencing Wonderland first-hand. Talasek has lived almost everywhere someone makes computer chips in the US, but is a proud native Texan, and happy to be home again in the Texas hill country where he participates in various business interests inside and outside the semiconductor industry.
For more information concerning "Alice in Corporate Wonderland," contact Talasek or visit www.aliceincorporatewonderland.com
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