Review
In the rush to restore the competitiveness of corporation, it is all to easy to forget to nourish the souls of the people who work there. Jeannette Batz's evocative portraits reveals what goes wrong when companies exact conformity -- and how people can empower themselves to right the balance. The voices who speak through this wise book have the ring of truth. Anyone with a stake in a more creative, value-oriented and people-friendly workplace should listen to them. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter,Harvard Business School, and author of When Giants Learn to Dance
Jeannette Batz had just enough time in corporate America to give us this fine book. If she'd stayed longer, her insights and anger and wit might have been less sharp...For all the anger, I found an optimism underneath. Batz insists we find better ways. Work needn't be the 40-hour hell in a carpeted place it so often is. She urges this kind of subversive thinking on all of us and I say hooray. -- Paul Hendrickson of The Washington Post
Jeannette Batz's Half Life deftly explores the not-so-sweet soullessness of life in the corporate world. She understands the real, human costs incurred in corporate life, and that understanding informs this incisive book. -- John Krull, Indianapolis News
Jeannette Batz had just enough time in corporate America to give us this fine book. If she'd stayed longer, her insights and anger and wit might have been less sharp...For all the anger, I found an optimism underneath. Batz insists we find better ways. Work needn't be the 40-hour hell in a carpeted place it so often is. She urges this kind of subversive thinking on all of us and I say hooray. -- Paul Hendrickson of The Washington Post
Jeannette Batz's Half Life deftly explores the not-so-sweet soullessness of life in the corporate world. She understands the real, human costs incurred in corporate life, and that understanding informs this incisive book. -- John Krull, Indianapolis News
