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‘Everything I Know about Business I Learned from the Grateful Dead’

Professor argues corporate America can learn valuable lessons from legendary ’60s band

Corporations must be feeling punchy. It’s not enough that protesters from Occupy Boston-New York-Trenton-and-wherever are angrily snapping at their heels. We’re now told that even the Grateful Dead - rock music’s most famous lifestyle circus - ran their business better than many corporate honchos run theirs. If you believe the premise of this new book, then the Dead may provide answers to push some of these companies in a more humane, progressive direction.

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