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The Marketing Book Podcast

315 The Ministry of Common Sense by Martin Lindstrom

The Marketing Book Podcast

Douglas Burdett

Sales, B2bmarketing, Contentmarketing, Marketing, B2bsales, Socialmedia, Business, Entrepreneurship, Digitalmarketing

4.9 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate BS by Martin Lindstrom

A humorous yet practical five-step guide to ridding ourselves—and our companies—of the bureaucratic bottlenecks and red tape that plague every office

You try to reserve a conference room for a crucial client meeting via your company’s new-and-improved computer service, only to find that every conference room is booked–seemingly forever.

Your weekly conference call is hijacked by video screens freezing, cords not working, and employees dropping in and out.

You then sit through an endless PowerPoint presentation that everyone claims they’ve read, no one has, and that could have been summarized in one page.

What has happened to common sense? And how can we get it back?

Companies, it seems, have become so entangled in their own internal issues, and further beset by reams of invisible red tape, that they’ve lost sight of their core purpose. Inevitably, they pay the price.

Best-selling author Martin Lindstrom combines numerous real‑life examples of corporate common sense gone wrong with his own ingenious plan for restoring logic—and sanity—to the companies and people that need it most.

A must-read for today’s executives, managers, and office workers, The Ministry of Common Sense is funny, entertaining, and immensely practical.

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This is Martin Lindstrom, author of The Ministry of Common Sense, How to Eliminate Bill Cradig Red

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Tip Bad Excuses and Corporate B.S.

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And you are listening to the Marketing Book Podcast.

0:13.0

Welcome to the Marketing Book Podcast,

0:18.0

helping you keep up with the smartest thinking in the quickly changing field of modern marketing.

0:23.6

And now here's your host, Douglas Perdette.

0:27.4

Hello, thanks for joining me on the marketing book

0:29.9

podcast, where each week I published an interview

0:31.9

with the author of a new marketing or

0:34.1

sales book and which was named by Forbes is one of 11 smart podcasts that will keep

0:39.2

you in the know and named by LinkedIn is one of 10 podcasts that will make you a better marketer.

0:46.0

Don't worry about taking notes so you can find links to everything linkable in this episode's

0:49.9

website page at marketing Book Podcast.com.

0:53.6

And since you're a listener to the Marketing Book

0:55.8

Podcast, and I read every book featured on the show,

0:58.9

if I can recommend a specific marketing or sales book

1:02.1

or any other resource I know of for whatever

1:04.7

situation you're in send me a connection invite on LinkedIn where we can chat and

1:08.9

I'll do my best to get you pointed in the right direction. Speaking of

1:12.4

LinkedIn this episode is sponsored by LinkedIn

1:15.5

marketing solutions. Every marketing campaign starts with one simple question. How do I

1:21.2

ensure the people I want to target will be in the mindset to receive my message?

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