I am suffering from a personal dilemma. While doing some research I stumbled across Christopher Flett and his book ‘What Men Don’t Tell Women About Business: Opening Up the Heavily Guarded Alpha Male Playbook’
The book description and the profile of the author, (a man who gives 40-60 speeches a year to women on corporate life), makes me think that the book will be a pile of condescending nonsense. Spending the main chunk of my time in corporate life as opposed to the little time I spend in academia I know how different the cultures are. I am also put off by professional speech givers unless they are of the after-dinner type. As a rule they are bores.
If this was book written by Nicola Horlick, I would have already bought it. However the credentials of a male Canadian professional talker and academic isn’t quite so appealling.
So do I
1. Buy the book and challenge my preconceptions
2. Not buy the book in the belief that life is too short and there are lots of good books that I know I would enjoy
