City Slackers

Thousands of people have built successful careers without ever delivering anything. Despite a track record of nothing but failure, they wield enormous authority but are accountable to nobody.

These are the City Slackers, a new breed of employee who is taking over the world and cramming it full of things no one wants.

How do they manage it?

According to Steve McKevitt's hilarious – but all-too serious – new book, they get away with it because in today's workplace, accountability and responsibility are in short supply at all levels.

And with the prize for ruining a perfectly good company often a multi-million payout, the rot starts at the top.

With failure the norm - eighty percent of new products launched this year will be unsuccessful - this has created an environment in which the mediocre not only survive, but can flourish and thrive.

As a result, today's ambitious company men and women have a new priority – themselves. City Slackers often appear to be their company's rising stars; model employees who have never put a foot wrong. But in truth they will never deliver anything – they know they don't need to.

They know that the rules of the game have changed. If they play their cards right, they can end up with a seat on the board with a big salary, guaranteed bonus, stock options – and no work to do.

This book explains how to win this new corporate game and how the mediocre can inherit the business earth.

It takes a sharp-eyed look at the modern workplace and delivers an unflinching analysis of City Slacker syndrome: And don't think that it is relevant only to industries such as music, entertainment and the media - no industry survives unscathed.