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The Case for Slacking Off (2013)

Manfred Kets de Vries

"Do less instead of doing too much"

This blog entry with the Harvard Business Review argues that the biggest problem we have in contemporary society is not that we do too little but that we try to do too much.

Harvard Business Review, 2013

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