QUOTATION 43
ROBERT FROST ON DISENCHANTMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
Use this to remind you to treat staff as intelligent functioning adults.
Robert Lee Frost (1874–1963) was an American poet and four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems often dealt with the trials and tribulations of ordinary working people. His great observational skills of people at work are captured in the following quotation.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office
Robert Frost
Contained within the humour is a plea for management at all levels to recognise that workers are not automatons but intelligent, thinking human beings who, outside of work, buy a house, raise/manage ...
Get The Little Book of Big Management Wisdom now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
