Surviving the Daily Grind: Bartleby's Guide to Work [Hardcover]

One of today's pre-eminent financial journalists, and the Bartleby columnist for theEconomist,reveals strategies and tips for surviving—and making the most out of—the work week.

We spend a lot of our time at work and would be depressed with nothing to do. But when it gets to Monday, many of us are already longing for the weekend and the prospect of escape. How did work become so tedious and stressful? And is there anything we can do to make it better?

Based on his popularEconomistBartleby column, Philip Coggan rewrites the rules of work to help us survive the daily grind. Ranging widely, he encourages us to cut through mindless jargon, pointless bureaucracy and endless meetings to find a new, more creative—and less frustrating—way to get by and get things done at work.

Incisive, original, and endlessly droll, this is the guide for beleaguered underlings and harried higher-ups alike. As Rousseau might have said: Man was born free, but is everywhere stuck in a meeting. If you've ever thought there must be a better way, this is the book for you.Philip Cogganis the former writer of the Bartleby and Buttonwood columns for theEconomist.He previously worked for theFinancial Timesfor twenty years. His other books includeThe Money Machine, Guide to Hedge Funds from Economist Books, andMore.Morewas a Financial TimesBook of the Summer."In this chipper send-up, Coggan, who wrote the Economist’s Bartleby column on work and management until 2021, provides an irreverent accounting of how overlong meetings, noisy office plans, incompetent managers, and other exasperating eccentricities of the modern workplace burden employees. A pleasantly peppy lampooning of the plight of the modern professional."Praise for Philip Coggan"Big and timely. Coggan's account of the riselc/