But even ancient philosophers suffered unnecessary meetings, annoying colleagues, and pointlessly bureaucratic processes … long before email chains, online conferences and 'blue sky' sessions existed.
It's that mindset — "simple though it may sound, but very powerful, and very useful" — that Lawson wants to help people apply to their workplaces.Stoic philosophy was founded in Greece around 304 BC by Zeno, a once-wealthy merchant whose life changed when he was shipwrecked. While the ancient Romans didn't have to deal with people who reply-all with, "Can I please be taken off this list?" to an email that's been sent to several thousand people, they did have an attitude about the importance of time that puts things into perspective.
We used to build cars, like the last local car passing through thing HSV production plant in Clayton. Changes in the productivity of the services that are now the base of our economy are harder to count.