The pilgrim's guide to the workplace / Agustin Chevez.
Chevez, Agustin, author.
2022
HD7261
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Title The pilgrim's guide to the workplace / Agustin Chevez.
Author Chevez, Agustin, author.
ISBN 9789811947599 (electronic bk.)
9811947597 (electronic bk.)
9789811947582
9811947589
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4759-9
Published Singapore : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 157 pages) : color illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-19-4759-9 doi
Call Number HD7261
Dewey Decimal Classification 658.3/82
Summary 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 Agustins 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Access Note Open access
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 15, 2022).
Series SpringerBriefs in business. 2191-5490
Available in Other Form Print version: 9789811947582
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Part 1 - The road less travelled
Chapter 1 - Iguanas, isolation, and ideas
Chapter 2 - About this book
Chapter 3 Spoiler alert
Chapter 4 A note on COVID-19
Part 2 The making of a pilgrimage
Chapter 5 Anatomy of a pilgrimage
Chapter 6 No pain, no gain
Chapter 7 My two rules
Chapter 8 The Herzog enigma
Chapter 9 The idea
Chapter 10 Why, and for which charity?
Chapter 11 Having fun
Chapter 12 Step one
Chapter 13 Life at 4.6 km/hr
Chapter 14 My backpack
Chapter 15 Award winning scones
Chapter 16 The good, the bad, and the ugly
Chapter 17 Rubbish snakes
Chapter 18 Where are the idiots?
Chapter 19 Winds
Chapter 20 The perfect day
Chapter 21 The very last step
Chapter 22 Mind lag
Part 4 Real steps, virtual pilgrimage
Chapter 23 Virtual pilgrimage, real pain
Chapter 24 Dconstructing pilgrimages
Chapter 25 El Camino Sisyphus style
Chapter 26 Postcard from Pamplona
Chapter 27 66 loops
Part 5 Laying paths
Chapter 28 Following signposts
Chapter 29 Fork on the road
Chapter 30 The wisdom of the locals
Chapter 31 Lets go!
Chapter 32 Your armchair Pilgrimage
Chapter 33 On wilderness, carnivals, and foolishness
Chapter 34 The art of timing and balance
Chapter 35 The trails and territories of adversity
Chapter 36 All roads lead to Rome
Chapter 37 Getting there
Part 6 Your creature
Chapter 38 My iguana, your creature
Acknowledgements
Appendix A: List of Signposts
Appendix B: Meet the locals
Appendix C: Signpost calibration
References.

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