I remember a new director we got back around 2002. He gave us (the 12 top level admins) that "Who Moved My Cheese" book when we had our first admin. meeting together. Told us to read it and come back to a meeting next morning.
Next morning he had the book's author there at the meeting. The author literally *read* the book to us. As the different mouse personalities were described, the author had us make little signs showing the personalities, hang them on our necks, and act like the mouse in the description. We did that for six hours.
We were so totally turned off by (1) the new director, (2) the author, (3) the book, that we actually became very negative about the future. The director had treated us like junior high kids. The book's author treated us like junior high kids - and the book was written like it was for junior high kids.
Good grief. If that's how management were to treat staff - we're in "deep doo doo".
PS - that new director was removed from his position several years later, for poor leadership and for spending funds on parties, travel, office furniture, luxury retreats, and "friends".