Chapter 11
The Getting of Wisdom: InstitutionalReform and Personal Revolution
‘Open up, loosen up, listen up, speak up, and don't work weekends on anything you don't enjoy’
Herman Daly, ex-World Bank economist1
‘When you get it right, it's better than sex’
Anonymous fieldworker, Zambia2
After toiling away in the nether regions of an international bureaucracy for 20 years, most of us would probably echo Herman Daly's advice in his farewell speech to the World Bank: for goodness sake ‘loosen up’. The organisation would be much more effective as a result, and its employees would be happier, though maybe not so happy as the fieldworker in Zambia who thought his work was ‘better than sex’ – a reference to the high that comes from helping people ...
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