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Under New Management by David Burkus - Book Summary
“Why the Best Managers Stop Managing”
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Title: Under New Management
Author: David Burkus
Category: Leadership & Team Building, Workplace & Company Culture
What if the best managers stopped managing altogether? Sam and Sophie dig into David Burkus's radical argument that most workplace rules—vacation policies, schedules, performance reviews—are relics of the industrial age that actually hold people back.
They walk through Burkus's alternatives…
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