What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey. **Where to find us: **
- Peter's other podcast, 5-4)
- Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase)
Sources:
- Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America)
- Downsizing in America)
- Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary)
- The Disposable American)
- Spencer Johnson, ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Author, Dies at 78)
- What was the New Economy?)
- Boss, Employees Share Large Cheese Platter)
- Tarpon's big cheese has aides reading)
- Why doesn’t downsizing deliver?)
- On the Battlefields of Business, Millions of Casualties)
- Shareholder Value and Workforce Downsizing, 1981-2006)
- Long-Term Earnings Losses Due to Job Separation During the 1982 Recession)
- Does Employee Downsizing Really Work?)
- Layoffs, Top Executive Pay, and Firm Performance)
- Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management and the Labor Market)
- A Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Why Organizations Downsize)
- Organizational Downsizing: Constraining, Cloning, Learning)
- The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s)
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