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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Road Less Travelled
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The Making of a Pilgrimage
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Sisyphus Goes to Sydney
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About this book
This is an Open Access book.
Hoping to incubate a unique idea about workplace design, Dr. Agustin Chevez walked in isolation for 42 days from Melbourne to Sydney. His pilgrimage delivered 34 Signposts, a collection of insights which hold the promise to guide us to a better place to work.
While firmly positioned within the shifting context of work, the Signposts point away from reactive solutions with a short shelf life. Instead, these markers are infused with a diversity of thought instilled by Agustin’s pilgrimage and reclaim the forgotten qualities of solitude, boredom, adversity, and absurdity as mechanisms to deliver innovation and create improved working environments.
On his way to Sydney Agustin relied on maps and people with local knowledge of the lands he traversed. Similarly, in this book, he consults people with local knowledge in various design disciplines, management, and technology as he navigates the many regions of the workplace and work practices covered by the Signposts. When he reaches the end of the known trails, he starts laying paths that take us closer to where the Signposts converge.
Agustin writes from the perspective of a pilgrim, architect, workplace consultant, and researcher and invites you to join him as a fellow pilgrim. You will be rewarded with a journey that revisits our assumptions about the way we use space to host the ever-evolving notion of work – an expedition leading not only to better versions of the workplace, but a better version of ourselves.
“This book takes about three hours to read, and it could take a lifetime to fully extract all the benefits that it contains. This does not suggest that there are not immediate benefits available from reflecting on and applying the Signposts that are core to the book's intellectual contribution.”
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Authors and Affiliations
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University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Agustin Chevez
About the author
Agustin is a workplace consultant, an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University and an Honorary Fellow at the School of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace
Authors: Agustin Chevez
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Business
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4759-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-4758-2Published: 30 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-4759-9Published: 29 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2191-5482
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5490
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 157
Number of Illustrations: 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Management, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Knowledge Management, Management Education, Industrial and Organizational Psychology