What do Dennis Hopper’s ex-wife, the creator of Wonder Woman, an erotic mystery novelist, a death-obsessed sex cult leader, and a stuffed corpse in a university foyer all have in common?
Believe it or not, they all played a crucial role in the evolution of work. Their strange stories help explain so much of what's wrong with modern organisations: Hustle culture. Meaningless purpose statements. Endless compliance policies. Pointless e-learnings. Ineffective meetings. Blind faith in technology. Flawed decision-making. Ridiculous personality tests.

It’s almost like work wasn’t designed for humans. As it turns out, it wasn’t…

Much about modern work is based on a caricature of humans as rational calculation machines, rather than the social, emotional, tribal, storytelling animals we really are.

Featuring a cast of brilliant and bizarre characters and full of compelling stories, BS At Work analyses the flawed assumptions about human nature that underpin so much of modern working life.

The book brings together the latest thinking from Anthropology, Behavioural Economics, Neuroscience, and Psychology to ask: what does it mean to be human, and how we can make work work for humans as we really are?