Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan and has authored many works of both fiction and non-fiction. He has been honoured, praised, and is the recipient of many literary awards. All good, and likely well deserved, but, Dear Reader, I want to bring your attention to
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There was a comedy game show on television not so long ago called “Whose Line is it Anyway?” The tagline was: Where the show is made up and the points don’t matter. I always thought that tagline could have been an insightful summary of the North American workplace. Was
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