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The 7 Gambits of Highly Defective Buyers

Procurement Bert’s How Not-to Guide for Procurement Professionals

Keith McCabe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The Self-Publishing Partnership Ltd

Publishing:19th Jan '26

£11.99

This title is due to be published on 19th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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The Seven Gambits of Highly Defective Buyers is a darkly funny, painfully accurate how-not-to guide to modern procurement life – a world of endless meetings, shifting priorities, and the comforting illusion that someone, somewhere, has a plan. Through a cast of gloriously flawed characters, the book exposes the profession’s most familiar bad habits with sharp humour and insider precision. Featuring over 100 original illustrations, it skewers business-book clichés, organisational chaos, and the everyday realities of procurement, project management, and corporate life. Part comedy and part therapy, it proves that sometimes the best way to learn from our profession is simply to laugh at it.

ISBN: 9781839529955

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm

Weight: unknown

176 pages