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Soft Targets

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In December of 1991, I was working as the “Senior Manager of Consulting Services” at Multitrack Software Development Corporation. Business wasn’t great and senior management had “no choice” but to have layoffs .

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    I tell the story of how I eventually came to understand the issues I had with being laid off in (Taylor 2004).

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  1. Foisie Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

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Taylor, S.S. (2018). Soft Targets. In: Staging Organization. Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63127-1_2

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