{"id":3196,"date":"2019-01-21T21:27:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2021-12-08T03:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:57:46","slug":"the-gervais-principle-part-1-the-office-according-to-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2019\/01\/21\/the-gervais-principle-part-1-the-office-according-to-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gervais Principle PART 1 &#8211; The Office According to The Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-gervais-principle-the-office-rectangle-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-gervais-principle-the-office-rectangle-2-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-gervais-principle-the-office-rectangle-2-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/the-gervais-principle-the-office-rectangle-2.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2009\/10\/07\/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2009\/10\/07\/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office\/<\/a><br \/>\n<em>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2019\/08\/06\/venkatesh-rao-of-ribbonfarm\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Venkatesh Rao<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I\u2019ve watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I\u2019ve watched the show obsessively because I\u2019ve been unable to figure out what makes it so devastatingly effective, and elevates it so far above the likes of Dilbert and Office Space.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, that is. Now, after four years, I\u2019ve finally figured the show out.  The Office is not a random series of cynical gags aimed at momentarily alleviating the existential despair of low-level grunts. It is a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of the business section of the bookstore.  The theory begins with Hugh MacLeod\u2019s well-known cartoon, Company Hierarchy, and its cornerstone is something I will call The Gervais Principle, which supersedes both the Peter Principle and its successor, The Dilbert Principle&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2009\/10\/07\/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2009\/10\/07\/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office\/ By Venkatesh Rao My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I\u2019ve watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I\u2019ve watched the show obsessively because I\u2019ve been unable to figure out what makes it so devastatingly effective, and elevates it so far above the likes of Dilbert &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2019\/01\/21\/the-gervais-principle-part-1-the-office-according-to-the-office\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[895,898,919],"tags":[1132],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-theory-and-strategy","category-culture-and-cultural-insights","category-venkatesh-rao-of-ribbonfarm","tag-the-gervais-principle","nodate","item-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Gervais Principle PART 1 - The Office According to The Office - Media Blitz Publicity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2019\/01\/21\/the-gervais-principle-part-1-the-office-according-to-the-office\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Gervais Principle PART 1 - The Office According to The Office - Media Blitz Publicity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2009\/10\/07\/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office\/ By Venkatesh Rao My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. 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