"There is no question that How to Work for an Idiot: Survive and Thrive ... Without Killing Your Boss... is a subversive book. People will pick it up expecting a tasty blend of commiseration and advice. They will put it down thinking, to rephrase the famous line from the cartoon character Pogo, "We have met the idiot, and he is us.""
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Claudia H. Deutsch, "At Lunch With -- John Hoover; Idiots, and the People Who Work for Them," The New York Times (Jan. 4, 2004)
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