Kunen is the author of popular and critically praised books that grapple with legal and political issues in a personal way. "Think Aaron Copland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man,' only it's not set to music, it's in prose." "If Holden Caulfield ever lost his job in corporate communications, this is the book Robert Lipsyte, author of The Accidental Sportswriter In his latest incarnation, aging but youthful, downsized but not downcast, he shows us how to use those corporate smarts to do something useful and fulfilling."
"James Kunen has been surfing America's historical waves for forty years, reinventing himself just before he wipes out. Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One "James Kunen has done it again, with his acute, observant, funny and moving story of what's truly important in life.ĭiary of a Company Man is timely and timeless - a beautiful piece of writing and enduring source of inspiration." Jerome Klinkowitz, co-editor, Norton Anthology of American Literature "Shows how America may finally be getting ready for a better life." Peter Quinn, author of The Man Who Never Returned Kunen has harpooned the Great White Whale of this generation." "Captures the soul-grinding nature of the corporation. I thought it would give them good practice pronouncing the 'uh' sound high in their throat (as in 'up') in 'nothing,' 'done,' 'sung,' and-over and over again-'love.' (They tend to pronounce every 'uh' from a lower place, like the 'oo' in 'good' or the 'u' in 'rude.')Īs I stood at the side of the room listening to my class sing, 'There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be,' I was overwhelmed by the feeling that I was in exactly the right place doing precisely the right thing." (p. "In speech lab tonight we played 'All You Need is Love.' The students listened and then sang along. Either that or they've been heldĪloft-like trapeze artists, by the wrists-and now they're not It suggests that people haveīeen wanting to go, have been prevented from doing so, and are Superiors' offices, where they are told that they're being 'let go.'
AllĪcross the company, 2,400 people are being asked to step into their "Today is the day that we in Human Resources and CorporateĬommunications have been planning for: Bad News Day. 'How can life be so short when this speech is so long?' Time doesn't fly. It was a very hot day.Īs the rabbi talked, I turned to my then-teenage son and whispered, Things in the past, in Hebrew and in English. Or maybe the Talmud, and what wise men had said about these Life, and life itself, and God, and the Jewish people, and the Torah, But first a rabbi was talking, at length-about the man, and his Cemetery as a man's gravestone was about to be unveiled-about toīe.
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