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You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history?Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work - our work - gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is - and what it might become.
In the mid-nineteenth century clerks worked in small, dank spaces called “counting-houses.” These were all-male enclaves, where work was just paperwork. Most Americans considered clerks to be questionable dandies, who didn’t do “real work.” But the joke was on them: As the great historical shifts from agricultural to industrial economies took place, and then from industrial to information economies, the organization of the workplace evolved along with them - and the clerks took over. Offices became rationalized, designed for both greater efficiency in the accomplishments of clerical work and the enhancement of worker productivity. Women entered the office by the millions, and revolutionized the social world from within. Skyscrapers filled with office space came to tower over cities everywhere. Cubed opens our eyes to what is a truly "secret history" of changes so obvious and ubiquitous that we've hardly noticed them. From the wood-paneled executive suite to the advent of the cubicles where 60% of Americans now work (and 93% of them dislike it) to a not-too-distant future where we might work anywhere at any time (and perhaps all the time), Cubed excavates from popular books, movies, comic strips (Dilbert!), and a vast amount of management literature and business history, the reasons why our workplaces are the way they are - and how they might be better.
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Ori Brafman and management consultant Judah Pollack dramatically demonstrate how even the best and most efficient organizations - from Fortune 500 companies to today's US Army - can become more innovative by allowing a little unstructured space and "contained chaos" into their planning and decision-making. Through their consulting work, they realized that while structure and hierarchy are essential both in large corporations and small groups, too much of either can stifle creativity.
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a must read!!
- De Kelly Pavich en 05-26-19
De: Ori Brafman, y otros
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Ahead of the Curve
- Two Years at Harvard Business School
- De: Philip Delves Broughton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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In 2004 Philip Delves Broughton abandoned a post as Paris bureau chief of the London Daily Telegraph to join 900 other would-be tycoons on the Harvard Business School's plush campus. With acute and often uproarious candor, he assesses the school's success at teaching the traits it extols as most important in business: leadership, decisiveness, ethical behavior, and work/life balance.
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On one breath.
- De Atkins en 05-17-22
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The Idea Factory
- Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- De: Jon Gertner
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the1980s. In its heyday, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1200 of whom held PhDs and 13 of whom won Nobel Prizes. Thriving in a work environment that embraced new ideas, Bell Labs scientists introduced concepts that still propel many of today’s most exciting technologies.
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Great story -- horrible pauses
- De Rodney en 01-29-13
De: Jon Gertner
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A Bigger Prize
- How We Can Do Better Than the Competition
- De: Margaret Heffernan
- Narrado por: Margaret Heffernan
- Duración: 15 h y 48 m
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From the cranberry bogs of Massachusetts to the classrooms of Singapore and Finland, from tiny start-ups to global engineering firms and beloved American organizations like Ocean Spray, Eileen Fisher, Gore, and Boston Scientific, Heffernan discovers ways of living and working that foster creativity, spark innovation, reinforce our social fabric, and feel so much better than winning.
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Margaret Heffernan is brilliant!
- De Eric Willingham en 06-09-16
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Moral Mazes
- The World of Corporate Managers
- De: Robert Jackall
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes offers an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Based on extensive interviews with managers at every level of two industrial firms and of a large public relations agency, IMoral Mazes takes the reader inside the intricate world of the corporation.
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Well written; poorly narrated
- De C. Youngblood en 09-30-13
De: Robert Jackall
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The World Is Flat
- Further Updated and Expanded
- De: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 27 h y 15 m
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When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations?
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If you like cliches...
- De Jonathan Shultz en 09-08-07
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The Man in the Glass House
- Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century
- De: Mark Lamster
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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Award-winning architectural critic and biographer Mark Lamster's The Man in the Glass House lifts the veil on Johnson's controversial and endlessly contradictory life to tell the story of a charming yet deeply flawed man. A roller-coaster tale of the perils of wealth, privilege, and ambition, this book probes the dynamics of American culture that made him so powerful and tells the story of the built environment in modern America.
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Disappointing!
- De David G Dempsey en 07-12-19
De: Mark Lamster
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Bending Adversity
- Japan and the Art of Survival
- De: David Pilling
- Narrado por: Tim Andes Pabon
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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In Bending Adversity, Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, Pilling captures the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Japan.
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Good book, but terribly read
- De Kallan Resnick en 10-24-14
De: David Pilling
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Hershey
- Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams
- De: Michael D'Antonio
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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In this compelling biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D'Antonio gives us the real-life rags-to-riches story of Milton S. Hershey, a largely uneducated businessman whose idealistic sense of purpose created an immense financial empire, a town, and a legacy that lasts to this day.
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The Benchmark for Chartiable, Rich Men
- De Boyd Tschaggeny en 01-30-19
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World Without Mind
- The Existential Threat of Big Tech
- De: Franklin Foer
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. This rapid change has imperiled the way we think. Without pausing to consider the cost, the world has rushed to embrace the products and services of four titanic corporations. We shop with Amazon, socialize on Facebook, turn to Apple for entertainment, and rely on Google for information.
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5-Star Book with a 1-Star Title
- De David Larson en 09-18-17
De: Franklin Foer
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Small Giants
- Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th Anniversary Edition
- De: Bo Burlingham
- Narrado por: Bo Burlingham, Sean Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside 14 such remarkable companies.
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fantastic book for small company builders
- De Amazon Customer en 08-01-17
De: Bo Burlingham
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Two Cheers for Anarchism
- Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
- De: James C. Scott
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing - one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions.
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Three cheeers for Two cheers for Anarchism
- De doodoo en 01-16-16
De: James C. Scott
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Cubed
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- Sergio Faria
- 04-07-17
Much more than workplace history!
Do you to learn about the history of the workplace? Go ahead, you will find it here, since the industrial revolution through today's coworking facilities.
But there is much more! Sarah's story is really about the white collars and how they were influenced and influence the world we live. His ironic and sometimes sarcastic narrative becomes even more exciting and provocative when we figured out he's taking about people that could be exactly like you and me. Or like our parents and grandparents.
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- nozamaresu
- 06-12-16
Decent from a historical perspective but retelling of Hollywood movie plots negatively affects overall quality
This book piqued my interest because our company was in the midst of moving our headquarters from an outdated cubicle laden office to a new state of the art office utilizing open, shared workspaces.
The good: there are some fascinating historical nuggets on the evolution of the office that you probably won't find agglomerated in one singular text anywhere else.
The bad: the evolutionary tale of the office is littered with the author's penchant for frequently summarizing the plots of Hollywood films based in office settings. This was a perplexing move considering that I found the historical information quite interesting. The recanting of storylines from multiple films muddied what would have otherwise been easy to follow linear storytelling and I often fast forwarded the movie portions @ 3x speed to get to the historical parts. All in all an average read on how the office as we know it came to be. The rating would have been better if the author edited out the useless retelling of Hollywood movie plots... Which would have made it a third shorter too.
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- Darren Stutt
- 05-14-14
Did not learn a thing ...
in the first half of the book. Out of a few hundred audiobooks, I've only been unable to complete a book a couple of times. Horrible narration. Content was lacking any importance or of any interest.
How did Cubed get published? The author must be a good salesman. I suggest a career change.
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- 07-16-19
not a great listen
Really hard to finish. Subject matter not as interesting as description made it seem. Narration difficult to follow.
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