CHAPTER 8
MANAGING MODESTLY
The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
[Achilochas, circa 650 bc]
So – what to do about all this? Well – how about managing more modestly? More thoughtfully, more sensitively, but especially more modestly. People can manage modestly in all kinds of ways, as the readings point out. They can simply come to understand what gets in their way (for example, about being the deputy quartermaster in India, in our first piece); they can refuse obscene pay packages for the sake of teamwork, so that people really can become ‘a company’s greatest asset’ (as in our second piece, a fantasy letter by a CEO to the board); they can let everyone have ideas (our third piece). Overall, they can simply manage ...
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