The Shitty Truth About Management: Lessons in Leadership, Logistics, and Absolute Absurdity - Softcover

Katz, Nikki

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218635848

Publisher: Katz Chaos Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

This isn’t a leadership manual. It’s a survival guide.

Written by a woman who actually lived it, this book is for anyone who’s ever led a team, dealt with clueless executives, or questioned their entire career while navigating corporate chaos.

Welcome to management—where gaslighting is policy, Nerf wars interrupt performance reviews, and oversharing employees turn every day into a new HR challenge.

Inside this brutally honest, laugh-out-loud memoir-meets-field-guide, you’ll find:

✔️ True stories from the trenches—from HR nightmares to logistical disasters
✔️ Corporate absurdity in its purest form—goalposts moving, policies vanishing, logic optional
✔️ Lessons on navigating sexism, burnout, and neurodivergent bias—and still showing up for your team
✔️ What NOT to do as a leader (and how to survive when your boss does it anyway)
✔️ Actual leadership insight, buried under the madness and absolute absurdity of it all

Disclaimer: This book contains satire, honesty, swearing, and things you wish were fake.

Perfect for:

• Managers trying to survive in broken systems

• Women and neurodivergent professionals navigating corporate nonsense

• Fans of The Office—but real, and way more unhinged

• Anyone who needs to laugh before they rage-quit

If you've ever asked “Am I the only one dealing with this?”—this book proves you're not.

About this title

About the Author

Nikki Katz is a management professional turned chaos navigator, with over a decade of experience running fitness facilities and climbing gyms. She writes candidly (and with a healthy dose of profanity) about what leadership actually looks like from the front lines. When she's not dealing with buttholes-literal or figurative-she's writing, climbing, or side-eyeing corporate nonsense from her home in Chicago.

Edition details

• Publisher: Katz Chaos Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218635848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146