But it was a powerful attack on the rationalist school of management which saw workers as mere Numbers, and it provided a compelling portrait of how companies work.

但是，这是对管理学的理性主义学派的强有力的攻击，理性主义学派认为劳动者只是其中的一部分而已，只能反映公司运作的一个侧面。

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When you consider how vast this body of secrets is, you arrive at the conclusion that if all the secrets were told, a very different and far scarier portrait of the money management industry would emerge.

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Nationwide, the mutual savings bank in the UK, uses Portrait software for customer relationship management.

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