Workplace Fables
Published on 5. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-910200-78-0 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of true stories from one of the UK's most experienced businessmen, demonstrating best practices and common mistakes in business and the work place. After thirty years of life in the John Lewis Partnership Mark Price imparts some wisdom and gentle humour with these workplace fables. A heartwarming and highly instructive look at what you should and shouldn't do in business today. Divided into thirteen chapters, each containing about ten fables, this is a fantastically entertaining selection of Mark Price's real life business experiences - the good and the bad, the inventive and the hilariously stupid - these are the lessons of a lifetime, condensed into one, easy to read, volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
David Fickling Books
Dimensions
Height: 175 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
305 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910200-78-0 (9781910200780)
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Mark Price is a British businessman and the former managing director of Waitrose and Deputy Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership. He worked at the JLP for 34 years. Mark was appointed Chairman of Business in the Community in January 2011, a post he held for four years, and was also appointed Chairman of the Prince's Countryside Fund in 2010. He joined the Conservative government as the Minister of State for International Trade in February 2016. He was appointed a Commander of The Royal Victorian Order in the 2014 New Year's Honours.