DAVID BOLCHOVER

Los medios nos bombardean con noticias sobre el exceso de trabajo, el estrés y las dificultades para conciliar la vida laboral con la personal. Parece que éste es el escenario más común en el mundo de la empresa.No obstante, lo cierto es que hay millones y millones de personas activamente desconectadas de sus puestos de trabajo, que pasan meses y años en oficinas y despachos donde no hacen practicamente nada, perdidas en grandes organizaciones cuya ineficacia da risa y su gestion da pena, desperdiciando un talento que nadie reconoce ni recuerda.Los muertos vivientes revela la verdad sobre la vida en la oficina. Cautivara a cualquier persona que alguna vez haya trabajado en un entorno de grandes oficinas y despachos, o bien, a quien tenga un genuino deseo de convertir la vida laboral de los empleados en algo mas productivo y satisfactorio.

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2017.Longlisted for the Coutts Football Writers Association Award 2018.Before Pep Guardiola and before José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age. More extraordinarily still, Guttmann was a Holocaust survivor. Having narrowly dodged death by hiding for months in an attic near Budapest as thousands of fellow Jews in the neighbourhood were dragged off to be murdered, Guttmann later escaped from a slave labour camp. He was one of the lucky ones.His father, sister and wider family perished at the hands of the Nazis. But by 1961, as coach of Benfica, he had lifted one of footballs greatest prizes: the European Cup a feat he repeated the following year. Rising from the death pits of Europe to become its champion in just over sixteen years, Guttmann performed the single greatest comeback in football history.This remarkable story spans two visions of twentieth-century Europe: a continent ruptured by barbarism and genocide, yet lit up by exhilarating encounters in magnificent cities, where great players would strive to win football s holy grail. With dark forces rising once again, the story of Bela Guttmann s life asks the question: which vision of Europe will triumph in our times?