Business world has forgotten humanity
No wonder we 20-somethings are so harrowed in finding jobs. Look how hard it is for 50-somethings.
Forty-five partners were fired or demoted recently at Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw, a Chicago-based law firm. Partnership at a firm was “once considered as secure as tenure at a university,” the Chicago Tribune wrote. In our parents’ generation, a firm was a team. Any team needs many different people, serving with varying degrees of flashy repute. A space remained hallowed for a veteran partner, boosting the firm not with revenue, but the social and intellectual glue of good judgment....
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