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Management writers and gurus seem to favor the old “compare and contrast” school of examining issues. One favorite is the “old world-new world” distinction. The old world we look back on is a sad place of inefficiency, bureaucracy and technological naïvety. But we are now in a fluid, electronic age of many possibilities.
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© 2011 Adrian Furnham
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Furnham, A. (2011). Four legs good; two legs bad. In: Managing People in a Downturn. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307209_27
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