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Library Journal Review

``Management is, in fact, a sacred trust in which the well-being of other people is put in your care during most of their waking hours.'' Autry, the president of Meredith Corporation's magazine group, believes this, and as a result looks at management in a slightly different way from many management theorists. In a series of brief chapters, he examines how a caring manager might handle a wide variety of situations most managers face. Following many of these chapters are poems that in a truly remarkable way tell vignettes to help explain what the chapter was about. This is highly recommended for business how-to collections.-- Mi chael D. Kathman, St. John's Univ., Collegeville, Minn. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

As Autry ( Life After Mississippi ) sees it, love, trust and spirituality should be management's watchwords in the 1990s, in contrast to the often manipulative, restrictive policies of the '80s. And the author should know--he's president of the Fortune 500 Meredith magazine group in Des Moines, Iowa. In short essays and poetry refreshingly free of business jargon, Autry pens an unusual management primer designed to integrate work and life while offering, on management's part, specific provisions such as flexible hours, child care facilities, disabled employee and award programs, and a degree of shared ownership. And while conceding that personal and management problems may ensue from his egalitarian ideals, Autry contends that good results can compensate: increased productivity and higher profits and investment returns. First serial to Fortune; Fortune and Newbridge book clubs alternates; author tour. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

This volume offers some of the best current management advice available. Autry knows whereof he speaks, as president of the Magazine Group of Meredith Corporation. It's a humanistic tome, refreshingly clear of jargon and pretense, filled with stories from not only his experience but others' as well. Be human, he insists; have a life of works in which work is a part; avoid the trappings of power; learn to listen, to care, to stay in touch. With short chapters, interspersed with free verse, even the busy commuter-manager should find time to read Autry's plainspoken words. One only hopes that, in today's American corporation of toil and trouble, people do listen. ~--Barbara Jacobs