The Art Of Living Is The Art

We Have Become So Obsessed By Numbers And By Bottom Lines That Beauty And Truth Has Been Knocked Aside.

Management Gurus In General Are, I Think, Best Avoided. All Too Often They Reduce Your Working Life To A List Of Rules To Be Followed. Targets Are Aimed At. Goals Kicked At. You Then Break The Rules Or Forget Them And, Hey Presto, You Start Beating Yourself Up.

Working Is Bad Enough In The Winter, But In The Summer It Can Become Completely Intolerable. Stuck In Airless Offices, Every Fibre Of Our Being Seems To Cry Out For Freedom. We're Reminded Of Being Stuck In Double Maths While The Birds Sing Outside.

The Way To Stop Feeling Guilty Is To Read Stuff - I'm Not Saying My Book, But Works By Bertrand Russell Or Oscar Wilde, People Who Weren't Losers But Who Didn't Believe In The Work Ethic, And Argued This Thing About Guilt Or Wrote Philosophy About Idleness.

Bosses Should Sanction The Nap Rather Than Expect Workers To Power On All Day Without Repose. They Might Even Find That Workers' Happiness - Or What Management Types Refer To As "employee Satisfaction Results" - Might Improve.