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Alan Heeks
The Natural Advantage
Renew Yourself
Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2000
What's inside?
Turn your stress into psychological compost — fertilizer for creativity.
Recommendation
Work smarter, not harder has become a management cliché. While this mantra is vague at best, author Alan Heeks provides some useful advice on achieving this kind of balance. Heeks compares the stressed-out worker to formerly traditional farms that have gone organic. This premise could have been hokey, but Heeks pulls off the analogy with aplomb. As a consultant who works with large companies, the author is rooted enough in the real world that his advice is feasible. He offers helpful examples of people who have overcome work problems by using his principles. The book occasionally repeats itself and goes on a bit longer than necessary. Nonetheless, it provides a unique and healthy way of handling work-related stress. getabstract.com recommends this book to any manager or employee looking for an unconventional way to improve efficiency, by using the organic approach to life.
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About the Author
Alan Heeks is founder of the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity and 132-acre organic farm in England. He attended Oxford University and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. His consulting firm’s clients include 3M, Glaxo and BP.
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