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Incorporated? 300 years in the future, companies and businesses run everything on a ‘more personal level. ’ Every single person alive is their own 'corporation'.
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Union Atlantic shows that the subject of business is not exclusive of a good story.
A review by Shawn Quinn
Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett, Nan A. Talese, 320 pages, $26.
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Rework is a beautifully conceived and designed book, certainly among this year's best. Springing from the big brains of the people at 37signals, the ideas and insights provided are well-written, short and actionable, and they're smartly split up with illustrations by Milwaukeean Mike Rohde. The text alone is probably worthy of an award, but enlisting Rohde to add what he calls skecthnotes puts it in an artistic class business books rarely enter.
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If biographies or non-fiction management guides litter your day-to-day life, this is what you take to the beach.
A review by Todd Lazarski
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee, Random House, 272 pages, $25. 00, Hardcover, January 2010, ISBN 9781400068678
30-plus rapid-fire pages, opening with the line, "A WEDDING!
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Tensions are going to exist in any organization of human beings, from the marriage of two individuals all the way up to the social contract of a nation. The most successful leaders use that inherent tension and struggle to creatively further the organization—whether it's a spouse gently challenging the other to become the person they aspire to be, a corporate leader fomenting healthy disagreement on strategy to find a better approach, or a civil rights leader confronting an unjust, societal status quo to improve living conditions.
It is when we try to suppress those struggles and ignore the tension that we ultimately fail to move forward.
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