Think of activist investors and you think of boardroom battles, tough words in the media and fights over stockpiles of cash. In Dear Chairman, Jeff Gramm provides historical context, charting the rise of shareholder activism.
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We’re led to believe that there’s little that’s worse than mess – how unsightly it is, a signal of someone’s laziness, their lack of application. Not for nothing is cleanliness next to godliness. But what if we’ve got this the wrong way round?
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It’s nice to pick up a book that aims squarely at the nonsense of the workplace with no pretensions of providing wry analysis or insight.
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Working 9 to 5, or thereabouts, leaves 16 hours free. It’s the perfect amount of time for a microadventure.
Read MoreWriting on the Wall: Social Media, the first 2,000 years
Through his love of history and technology, The Economist’s Tom Standage provides us a valuable perspective not just on social media, but how humans communicate.
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