The Work System Press
The Work System Press was created to distribute my book The Work System Method: Connecting People, Processes, and IT for Business Results, and to publish related books and tools. I decided to start the Work System Press after realizing that working with an established publishing company would probably delay publication for at least a year, and would reduce my freedom to develop the ideas further in other books. Also, there was a significant possibility that that no established publishing company with genuine sales and promotion capabilities would want to publish a book about a new way to integrate ideas and subject matter that usually appear under separate categories including general management, business process reengineering, Six Sigma, and the wonders of IT.
The Work System Press stocks no inventory. Customers order books through online distributors and college bookstores. The books are printed on demand by LightningSource,Inc. in Tennessee in the US or near London in the UK and then delivered directly to the buyer or college bookstore, usually within a week.
Our internal management and operations reflect the very latest in management theory. Based on recent insights about the non-monetary aspects of motivation, all employees of the Work System Press are hired as “C-level” executives, as shown below.
Finally, in response to unsubstantiated and totally fallacious rumors about top management hanky-panky, we are providing the following full disclosure about possibly material events, communications, and evasions:
Our C-level executives going to a lunch meeting to gossip and whine about unbusiness-like activities of co-CEOs
Executive lunch room where our C-level executives actually spent most of lunch complaining about the lack of cushions and raw fish
Our motto: “When the going gets tough, exaggerating your toughness
gets you stuck in the mud.”
Co-CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) debating corporate strategy at an intense executive retreat
Our Board of Directors joining the fray and deliberating on the executive retreat’s alleged lack of business value
Our CPRO (Chief Proofreading Officer - on the left) finding a typo on page 126 and warning that office politics is diluting our efforts to disseminate knowledge
Our CDO (Chief Dental Officer) arguing unsuccessfully that a broccoli and spinach salad would be tastier, more nutritious, and more politically correct
Our CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer) trying to support the co-CEOs by intimidating the CSO.
Our CHO (Chief Hair Officer) telling our CTHO to get a serious makeover before the interviews, lest he leave the wrong impression
Our CHO (Chief Hospitality Officer) saying that a good party would probably reduce the tension in the executive suite
Our CRAO (Chief Risk Assessment Officer) claiming that the CSO actually copied a term paper she had written as a sophomore
Our CTO (Chief Tasting Officer) researching various possibilities for the party menu and suggesting a cake made from chocolate, cholesterol, and sugar
Our CTHO (Chief Talking Head Officer - wearing the hat) being prepped for interviews with the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek.
Shield of our CPO (Chief Postal Officer), who stays out of office politics and had no comment
Our CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) arguing that the strategy supposedly developed on the retreat actually appeared in a term paper he wrote as a college junior.
The Great Seal of the Work System Press just after notarizing the above disclosures
CFO (Chief Financial Officer), disapproving the travel expenditure as excessively fun-related, and threatening to refer the matter to the executive committee
