December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
4h 55m
English
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What's Wrong with Work?: The 5 Frustrations of Work and How to Fix them for Good
by Blaire Palmer
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Notes
[1] Richard Florida and Jim Goodnight, "Managing for creativity", Harvard Business Review (July/August 2005), pp. 125–131.
[2] Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg, "How gen Y and boomers will reshape your agenda", Harvard Business Review (July/August 2009), pp. 71–76.
[3] Hay Group website 2010, http://www.haygroup.com/ww/services/index.aspx?ID=117.
[4] Peter Warr and Guy Clapperton, The Joy of Work? Jobs, Happiness and You, 1st edition (Routledge, 2010), p. 7.
[5] Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, break all the rules – what the world's greatest managers do differently, 1st edition (Pocket Books, 2005), p. 25.
[6] Nathan T. Washburn, "Why profit shouldn't be your top goal", Harvard Business Review (December 2009), p. 23.
[7] Sergio Marchionne, "First person – Fiat's extreme makeover", Harvard Business Review (December 2009), p. 46.
[8] "Meetings in America", Research by the National Statistics Council, quoted in a Verizon Conferencing White Paper, https://e-meetings.verizonbusiness.com/global/en/meetingsinamerica/uswhitepaper ...
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