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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A book of literary selections about business
The title on Amazon is actually more accurate than the title on the book cover. On the cover, it's "writing" but Amazon's heading say's"literature." And literature it is, meaning the likes of John Updike and Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver and Arthur Miller and a host of other great fiction writers. The book is based on a course taught at the Harvard...
Published on January 30, 2009 by Walter H. Bock
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Minding the Store for the Unhappy
Not at all what I anticipated after reading the WSJ review. I thought these would be insightful ideas for someone interested in the business mindset, instead it played up to minorities and their efforts to get ahead in the business world and the always failed efforts of the poor to get ahead. Why was Upton Sinclair not included ?
Published on October 24, 2008 by Philip R. Miller
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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A book of literary selections about business,
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This review is from: Minding the Store: Great Literature About Business from Tolstoy to Now (Hardcover)
The title on Amazon is actually more accurate than the title on the book cover. On the cover, it's "writing" but Amazon's heading say's"literature." And literature it is, meaning the likes of John Updike and Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver and Arthur Miller and a host of other great fiction writers.
The book is based on a course taught at the Harvard Business School by Robert Coles. The writing is excellent and that makes this book worth your time. Just be prepared that most of the businesspeople portrayed on these pages won't be quite like the businesspeople you know or the businessperson you are. Most literary writers imagine business as a grotesque but necessary sideshow to the beautiful things in the world. I think of them the way Flannery O'Connor thought of Northern readers when she said: "I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic."
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Minding the Store for the Unhappy,
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This review is from: Minding the Store: Great Literature About Business from Tolstoy to Now (Hardcover)
Not at all what I anticipated after reading the WSJ review. I thought these would be insightful ideas for someone interested in the business mindset, instead it played up to minorities and their efforts to get ahead in the business world and the always failed efforts of the poor to get ahead. Why was Upton Sinclair not included ?
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Minding the Store: Great Literature About Business from Tolstoy to Now by Robert Coles (Hardcover - August 1, 2008)
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