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Tag: Work culture

  • Robert I. Sutton: The Asshole Survival Guide

    Robert I. Sutton: The Asshole Survival Guide

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    Overview ‘The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt’ by Robert I. Sutton is a practical guide for navigating interactions with difficult individuals, particularly in the workplace. Sutton, a Stanford professor, builds on his previous work, “The No Asshole Rule,” by offering concrete strategies to identify, manage, and mitigate…

  • Dennis Nørmark, Anders Fogh Jensen – Pseudowork

    Dennis Nørmark, Anders Fogh Jensen – Pseudowork

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    Overview “Pseudowork: How we ended up being busy doing nothing” is a book by anthropologist Dennis Nørmark and philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen. The book delves into the modern work culture and questions the value and meaning of what the authors term as ‘pseudowork’ – work that seems busy on the surface but is essentially meaningless…