Confessions 
Of an Accidental Businessman 
James Autry on the Soul of Commerce

James Autry calls us to the realization that business is first and foremost a human thing. Setting aside for a moment the regression analyses, organization charts, and 10K reports, business is about "fear, jealousy, anger, guilt, pain, joy, celebration, and a lot of love."

"How many of us," he asked, "have best friends at work that we care about so much that we can't imagine not sharing news about what's happening at home?"

Autry speaks calmly and languidly, at times a little like a Sunday school teacher. But he has sat in the hot seat as a publishing executive. "I am not St. James the Perfect," he insists. He has hired, fired, and charged into economic battle with the best of them. "I have made every mistake I am telling you not to make."  

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