The Art of Less
How to Focus on What Really Matters at Work
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781399422598
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 280x160x28 mm
- Weight 475 g
- Language English 696
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Short description:
An essential handbook on how overburdened organizations can break down barriers to more effective working, and how everyone can achieve more by doing less.
MoreLong description:
Achieve more by doing less.
At work we often feel weighed down by an excess of initiatives, meetings, training and targets. Over-enthusiastic executives, interfering consultants and demanding stakeholders often get in the way of doing the 'real work'. This leaves us feeling overwhelmed but underproductive.
The Art of Less offers ideas for how to create a more effective and efficient organization by removing obstacles to meaningful work. Mats Alvesson and Andrï¿1⁄2 Spicer explain how 'organizational sludge' gets in the way of performance, and what can be done about it. They show how unblocking systems and processes can improve work flow so people can focus more on the things that actually matter.
The Art of Less is the essential guide to how overburdened managers and employees can break down barriers to more effective working and achieve more by doing less.
Table of Contents:
PART ONE: What is Organizational Sludge?
1. Organizational Sludge
2. Types of Sludge
PART TWO: How Does Sludge Work?
3. Sources of Sludge
4. The Sludge Cycle
PART THREE: How can you fight sludge?
5. The Sludge Survival Guide
6. De-Sludging Organizations
7. Unblocking Leadership
8. Institutional Minimalism
