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We Have Let Work ‘Slip’

In: Business for the 21st Century

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  • François Dupuy

    (Mesa Research)

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A word on this notion of ‘managerial sloth’, to begin with, since it may give the impression that yesterday’s people were less courageous or less aware when it came to managing organizations than those of today. This is obviously not so. Quite simply, each generation of managers works in a very different set of economic circumstances from the previous one, and this largely explains the choices they make. To make a comparison: in the 1970s, there weren’t feckless governments on the one hand and virtuous ones on the other hand — they all faced tough constraints and adapted their policies in consequence. Day-to-day judgements on those policies were either polemics or ex post analyses of their consequences.

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  • François Dupuy, 2011. "We Have Let Work ‘Slip’," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Business for the 21st Century, chapter 1, pages 11-39, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30772-8_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230307728_2
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