Managers & Magic - Graham Cleverley

Corporate life gets tossed into a spellbook and shaken hard in Managers & Magic, where office politics collide with something far stranger lurking under the fluorescent lights. Graham Cleverley plays it straight just long enough for you to recognise the meetings, hierarchies, and quiet desperation, then slips in the idea that management itself might as well be a form of ritual, complete with its own language, symbols, and questionable outcomes.

It’s part satire, part sideways look at how organisations really function, poking at the illusion of control with a dry, knowing grin. The result feels like someone translated corporate culture into a fantasy system and realised it already behaved that way, where influence is a kind of magic, leadership is half performance, and nobody is entirely sure who’s actually pulling the strings.