CHAPTER 7EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS
Anything on earth you want to do is play.Anything on earth you have to do is work.Play will never kill you, work will.I never worked a day in my life.
—Leila Denmark, on her 102nd birthday
A few years ago, in the height of the high-tech boom, I was working with an organization whose newly minted managers were not performing up to par. I suspected that the phenomenon was widespread, given how hot the segment of the economy was and the lack of time for training new managers. An official from the Bureau of Labor Statistics told me that in the previous six months, 250,000 new managers had lost their jobs within six months of being promoted. She told me that the bureau became concerned, so they polled the terminated ...
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