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    Where Do All the Paperclips Go?: ...and 127 other Business and Career Conundrums
    Where Do All the Paperclips Go?: ...and 127 other Business and Career Conundrums
    Where Do All the Paperclips Go?: ...and 127 other Business and Career Conundrums
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    Where Do All the Paperclips Go?: ...and 127 other Business and Career Conundrums

    By Steve Coomber and Marc Woods

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    At last, a book about business that you'll actually want to read. Ever wondered how easy it is to fiddle your expenses, why you feel curiously ill at ease without your BlackBerry, or what the Japanese word 'Karoshi' means? Now you can find out. Forget endlessly surfing the web or wading through magazines. A few minutes with this book will save you an entire lunchtime looking for the answers to life's curious work-related conundrums. Where Do all The Paperclips Go? answers that and 127 other all-important questions. It has no graphs, matrices, formulas, dashboards or very long words to confuse you. Just instantly readable, memorable insights that will keep you coming back for more. And if you're too busy even to open the book, you'll be happy to learn that 'Karoshi' means 'death by overworking'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateJun 10, 2008
    ISBN9781906465001
    Where Do All the Paperclips Go?: ...and 127 other Business and Career Conundrums

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