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A Perfect Mess - Eric Abrahamson

Description: ISBN 0297852043 / Author: Eric Abrahamson / Genre: Finance / Business / Career / an entertaining and convincing attack on conventional ... more

A Perfect Mess - Eric Abrahamson ... wisdom. Read it and you need never again feel guilty about your untidy desk or non-existent lesson plan.

Newest Review: ... that they should give particular attention to the application of their ideas in a commercial setting. They cite numerous ... more

... examples of companies that are successful despite - or, rather, because of - not being conventionally organised. For example, bookshops and hardware stores that just pile up their wares for customers to browse rather than having them all neatly catalogued and displayed according to type; organisations that operate without formal management structures; enterprises that decline to plan ahead. The authors point out that companies that don't devote a lot of time to "getting organised" save the concomitant costs,...more

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A Perfect Mess - Eric Abrahamson: Another fine mess (1866 words)
by - written on 29/05/07 (Very useful, 287 readings)
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If you could see the room in which I am writing this review, I suspect you might think it a tad disorganised. The desktop is covered with jotted notes on heaps of half-used pads and scraps of paper, with pens, markers, calculators and the like jumbled in amongst them. There are piles of papers and files on the floor. On the shelves books, stationery, ornaments and more piles of papers are arranged, or disarranged, in no apparent order. My wife sometimes shows visitors my lair, and they always cluck and say things like: "but how can anyone work in such a mess?" The answer is: easily enough. I occasionally have difficulty locating the pile under which ... Read the complete review