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# Fluff and Project Management
- URL: https://www.kevinmeyer.com/fluff-and-proje/
- Published: 2007-10-04T08:59:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-10T19:03:04.000Z
- Author: Kevin Meyer
- Tags: Uncategorized, #Migrated-1752356847400, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-07-12 14:48

Each week I generally take a quick glance at the Business Week best seller list to see if there are any new or unusual books that might hold my interest on a long flight. It's always the usual suspects... books that purport to identify some until now unknown aspect of leadership such as *The No Asshole Rule* and *Leadership and Self-Deception*, get rich without working delusions such as *The 4-Hour Workweek* and *The Automatic Millionaire*, and the self-perpetuating best sellers such as *The World is Flat* and *What Color is Your Parachute?* Blah blah blah. Some are good entertaining reads, few say anything truly meaningful.

But one sort of stuck out this week: *A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge*. Say what?

A deep project management text book on a list full of fluff? What the heck? I've thumbed through the book, and it is top notch... but not exactly Sunday plane reading. The author is... a standards committee! If I was drooling at the prospect of another United $5 box lunch and contemplating the choice between watching Oceans 13 for the thirtieth time and reading that book, I would probably default to daydreaming about having the wealth in just one of George Clooney's pockets. I guess I should have picked up *The Automatic Millionaire* after all.

Don't get me wrong... it is a great book for anyone involved with project management. Chock full of tools and techniques and pitfalls to avoid. Just make sure you have a source of caffeine nearby.