the Western management fads of the past 30 years improved productivity
Maybe they improved monetised productivity, but it remains to be seen whether the increase in stress they caused don't mean such a loss of (non monetary) utility as to mean a decrease in actual, well, happiness. Which should be the whole point of increasing productivity in the first place. Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
Thomas Jefferson has a host of detractors, but I have thought for many years that his inclusion of "Happiness" in the Declaration of Independence was a master-stroke, however whimsical it might appear in such a document. The first time that I read/heard it, I was not really paying attention until that word jumped out of the text. I missed a lot of details in that first reading, because I was stuck on that word in that context.
I really, really like linca's take on things. paul spencer
