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In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet outlook on life, and why we’ve been so blind to its value.With Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now she emp...
Laszlo Bock
2022-04-19T14:20:22.000Z
Dying for a Paycheck
How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance―and What We Can Do About It
In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork.  People are literally dying for a...
Laszlo Bock
2021-10-21T19:56:28.000ZAlso recommended by
Adam GrantIn a landmark article published in the esteemed Harvard Business Review, Stanford University professor Robert I. Sutton addressed a taboo topic that affects every workplace: employees who are insensitive to their colleagues, corporate bullies, bosses who just don't get it, the kind of people who make you exclaim in exasperation, "What an asshole!"N...
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades.Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about change.--David Brooks, The New York Times How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endu...
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...more...