On the Survivability of a Corporate Life, Part 6 of 6
Epilogue I tend not to spend much time on problems I’m not interested in solving, and I have now spent many years with the problem of work. Because I find self-responsibility a most [...]
On the Survivability of a Corporate Life, Part 5 of 6
Personal Sovereignty One of the most common mistakes we make when we enter an organization as a worker is that we give up our autonomy, or as Polly Young-Eisendrath describes it, personal [...]
On the Survivability of a Corporate Life, Part 4 of 6
Taking Responsibility, Assuming Authority The many theorists on work, its place in our lives, and impact on our well-being are eager to show us the external culprit in our discomfort: the Great [...]
On the Survivability of a Corporate Life, Part 3 of 6
Work at Its Worst Recently, I was watching a pastiche of Stallone films. In one scene he is being broken down through a classic method for degrading the personality and resistance of prisoners: [...]
On the Survivability of a Corporate Life, Part 2 of 6
Vision and Perspective Many of us say we go to work because “we owe, we owe,” but little is said in consideration of what was once a very popular notion, so popular that it was taken [...]
On the Survivability of a Corporate Life, Part 1 of 6
A Case in Point Work is essential, not only to keep the wolf from the door, but also because it is at the very heart of what it means to be a member of society, a contributor to your community. [...]
