The TV MBA: Business Lessons from Popular Culture
Autor Rhymer Rigbyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 oct 2026
Referencing hundreds of well-loved scenes, characters and plot lines in pop culture, the book pulls out key management, careers and leadership lessons that can be enjoyed and absorbed by everyone - from graduate trainees and CEOs, to pop culture enthusiasts and cinephiles.
Tackling themes ranging from emotional intelligence, teamwork dynamics, and climbing the corporate ladder to disrupting markets, crisis management, and toxic cultures, Rhymer Rigby offers a unique blend of entertainment and business wisdom.
Whether it's Patrick Bateman's personal branding in American Psycho, Mulder and Scully's working relationship in The X-Files, Hagrid's induction process in Harry Potter, or the fundamental failures of risk management in the Alien franchise, The TV MBA casts an eye over celebrated characters and scenes, pulling out lessons and insights that apply to the real-world business environment.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350601703
ISBN-10: 1350601705
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Business
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350601705
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Business
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction: Joking, not joking
Chapter 1: Crime: From mindful gangsters to branding crystal meth
The Sopranos
Pulp Fiction
Dexter
Ozark
Goodfellas
Breaking Bad
Chapter 2: Drama: Toxic customers and a devilish management style
The Night Manager
American Beauty
The White Lotus
The Devil Wears Prada
The Americans
Fight Club
American Psycho
Chapter 3: Sci-Fi: cloned dinosaurs, chest-bursting aliens, and AI run amok
The X-Files
Alien
The Martian
Inception
Lost
Jurassic Park
Chapter 4: Action and adventure: Indy, Bond and a girl with a dragon tattoo
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Apocalypse Now
The Ghost Writer / The Ghost
Gone Girl
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Casino Royale
Chapter 5: Romance and Comedy: Bridget, Heather, and other F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Heathers
Friends
Bridget Jones's Diary
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Chapter 6: Horror and Fantasy: Shining examples from fantastical - and terrifying - worlds
The Descent
The Shining
28 Days Later
The Silence of the Lambs
Game of Thrones
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Chapter 7: WFTV while WFH
Filmography
Chapter 1: Crime: From mindful gangsters to branding crystal meth
The Sopranos
Pulp Fiction
Dexter
Ozark
Goodfellas
Breaking Bad
Chapter 2: Drama: Toxic customers and a devilish management style
The Night Manager
American Beauty
The White Lotus
The Devil Wears Prada
The Americans
Fight Club
American Psycho
Chapter 3: Sci-Fi: cloned dinosaurs, chest-bursting aliens, and AI run amok
The X-Files
Alien
The Martian
Inception
Lost
Jurassic Park
Chapter 4: Action and adventure: Indy, Bond and a girl with a dragon tattoo
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Apocalypse Now
The Ghost Writer / The Ghost
Gone Girl
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Casino Royale
Chapter 5: Romance and Comedy: Bridget, Heather, and other F.R.I.E.N.D.S
Heathers
Friends
Bridget Jones's Diary
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Chapter 6: Horror and Fantasy: Shining examples from fantastical - and terrifying - worlds
The Descent
The Shining
28 Days Later
The Silence of the Lambs
Game of Thrones
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Chapter 7: WFTV while WFH
Filmography
Recenzii
This is a surprisingly informative book, full of lessons I didn't realize I'd spent the last few decades learning. Breaking Bad as a masterclass. The Shining as warning about the perils of remote working. The TV MBA has reframed entertainment in a way I didn't know was possible.
The TV MBA uses examples from TV programmes to highlight many management concepts. One can learn more about management from TV, theatre and entertainment than in some standard management book. What a joy to read, you'll love it!
To use MBA-appropriate language, this book is a 'true win-win' - you learn a lot while having fun at the same time. No need to feel any guilt as you binge-watch some of these recommended TV series and films. This is research. This is knowledge work. Everything I know about management I have learned from Rhymer Rigby's viewing habits.
Finally, an MBA without the BS... In another writer's hands, this project might have come across as a cringe management fad. Instead, it contains more substance, insight and wisdom than most business books I've read. Rigby pulls this off thanks to both his deep understanding of business and the workplace, and also his natural feel for how pop culture can hit home harder than supposedly real-and-relatable corporate case studies.
Finally, a book for people who'd rather watch smart films to get a masterclass in how the corporate world really works. Strangely seductive and full of worldly wisdom, just like Tony Soprano.
Funny and thought-provoking lessons on management and the workplace from an excellent armchair guide. It's the only book you'll read that'll make you want to kick back in front of Gone Girl for its salutary tale about remote working, and consider work-life balance tips from Dexter, the fictional forensic scientist who indulges his hobby as a serial killer outside office hours. I'm looking forward to rewatching Colonel Kurz's anticipation of his execution in Apocalypse Now through the prism of succession planning. The horror, the horror indeed.
The TV MBA uses examples from TV programmes to highlight many management concepts. One can learn more about management from TV, theatre and entertainment than in some standard management book. What a joy to read, you'll love it!
To use MBA-appropriate language, this book is a 'true win-win' - you learn a lot while having fun at the same time. No need to feel any guilt as you binge-watch some of these recommended TV series and films. This is research. This is knowledge work. Everything I know about management I have learned from Rhymer Rigby's viewing habits.
Finally, an MBA without the BS... In another writer's hands, this project might have come across as a cringe management fad. Instead, it contains more substance, insight and wisdom than most business books I've read. Rigby pulls this off thanks to both his deep understanding of business and the workplace, and also his natural feel for how pop culture can hit home harder than supposedly real-and-relatable corporate case studies.
Finally, a book for people who'd rather watch smart films to get a masterclass in how the corporate world really works. Strangely seductive and full of worldly wisdom, just like Tony Soprano.
Funny and thought-provoking lessons on management and the workplace from an excellent armchair guide. It's the only book you'll read that'll make you want to kick back in front of Gone Girl for its salutary tale about remote working, and consider work-life balance tips from Dexter, the fictional forensic scientist who indulges his hobby as a serial killer outside office hours. I'm looking forward to rewatching Colonel Kurz's anticipation of his execution in Apocalypse Now through the prism of succession planning. The horror, the horror indeed.