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Life & Work: A Manager's Search for Meaning In Life and Work Autry addresses the emerging central questions facing all working people as they try to find their way amid the increasing pressures of downsizing and competition: "How can I find the balance in life and work?" Expressed another way, the question is: "How can I keep my life and work integrated?" Autry's answers, conveyed in essays, poems, and letters to his children, bring fresh insight to issues as vital and diverse as leadership and how to teach it, strategic alliances and how to create a "whole partnership", the breakdown of civility and community, and the seductions of success and how to avoid them. There are ideas and observations about business's destructive fads, about executive pay and the future of capitalism. The heart of Life and Work may well be its forthright approach to some of the thorniest and most troublesome challenges in management and life: romance and sexual tensions between men and women at work, accommodation of workers with disabilities, the difficulties of marriage between two working professionals, job stress and how it raises the cost of health care. Though this book takes a broad view of life and work, Autry's insights are always true to his considerable experience as a businessperson. He is able to reach to the deepest place in our hearts and minds to help us overcome pain, live in the present, and celebrate the generosity of spirit that reveals itself in the exquisite balance of how we choose to live and what we choose to do.
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