I worry that Boots readers enjoy my series on Sharing Information with Employees and extrapolate that I am the most interesting man in the world.
Please understand that my life spent studying old business books isn't as glamorous as it must seem from the outside.
On Sunday night, for instance, I found myself watching LPGA golf and leafing through Business and the Man, one of 24 volumes on "Modern Business," published by the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, in 1919.
Here's what I got out of these 327 pages, beyond a sneezing fit from the dust:
The "jolly fat man" stereotype: You heard it here last.