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A perfect mess : the hidden benefits of disorder : how crammed closets, cluttered offices, and on-the-fly planning make the world a better place / Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abrahamson, Eric, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orderliness.
- Order.
- Moderation.
- Success.
- Conduct of life.
- Organizational effectiveness.
- Physical Description:
- 327 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown, [2006]
- Summary:
- Combining business, science, history, and psychology, this groundbreaking book sheds new light on ideas of order and shows how chaos, disorder, and mess make the world a better place.
- Contents:
- The cost of neatness
- A mess sampler
- The history of mess
- The benefits of mess
- Messy people
- Messy homes
- Mess and organizations
- Messy leadership
- The politics of mess
- Optimizing mess
- Messy thinking
- Pathological mess
- The aesthetics of mess.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0316114758
- OCLC:
- 67727889
- Publisher Number:
- 9780316114752
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