How to run a calm workplace
A management book that is refreshingly different
MANAGEMENT books have a deservedly poor reputation. Too often they are written by people who confuse insight with jargon, the types who love to call a spade a “manual horticultural utensil”. At the other end of the scale are tomes containing a plethora of pithy platitudes about “breaking the mould” and “worshipping the kill”. The choice, in short, is between the incomprehensible and the inconsequential.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Keep calm and go home”
Business October 6th 2018
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