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Whyte diagnosed the conformist, belonging-hungry corporate culture of the fifties before anyone had the words for it. Grounded in what he saw rather than management theory, which is why it still bites.
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Not productivity advice. Somers noticed that when a tool gets fast enough, you attempt things you'd never have started otherwise, so the real change is in what becomes thinkable at all.
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