CEO Society - Time Management
CEO Society and time management. Laurie Taylor asks why charismatic leaders have assumed such significance in our era and explores the downside of productivity.
CEO Society – Laurie Taylor talks to Peter Bloom, Head of the Department of People and Organisations at the Open University and author of a new book which asks why corporate leaders such as Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg have become cultural icons of the 21st century. Also, how did productivity emerge as a way of thinking about job performance? Melissa Gregg, Research Director at Intel, explains why she thinks that time management is actually counterproductive. Repeat.
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Melissa Gregg, Counterproductive - Time Management in the Knowledge Economy, (Duke University Press, 2018)
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- Wed 10 Apr 201916:00BBC Radio 4
- Mon 15 Apr 201900:15BBC Radio 4
- Wed 16 Sep 202016:00BBC Radio 4 FM
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