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Reviewed by Gabriel Santos for Readers' Favorite
In Mahmudur Rahman Manna's Elias: The Quest for Meaning, a postgraduate student researching toxic behaviors in the workplace reaches out to Elias Thorn, a prominent expert in corporate culture and leadership. Drawing on his years of experience, Thorn guides the student and the reader on a journey toward understanding problematic behaviors on a deep, psychological level and connecting them to broader principles. The first and second chapters serve as an introduction, the following four tell and discuss the stories of Emma, Ava, Noah, and Sarah (each illustrating a specific problem), and the final one features a conversation about success, fulfillment, and meaning that leads to the unveiling of Thorn's life philosophy.
This book reminded me of dialogues from ancient philosophers, especially works of exhortation similar to Aristotle's Protrepticus and Cicero's Hortensius, but with a modern twist and more fleshed-out characters. Mahmudur Rahman Manna does a great job of establishing the characters' backgrounds and making them relatable and sympathetic, which is particularly impressive considering the brevity of the book. Elias: The Quest for Meaning tackles several topics, such as distrust, scarcity mindset, and desire for control, with simple and precise language, making them accessible to a large public. Despite the focus on corporate culture, the lessons on behaviors and psychology should be valuable to anyone. The worldview is quite insightful and applicable to many contexts beyond the workplace. Overall, this is a unique title positioned at the intersection between business, psychology, and philosophy, and I recommend it to anyone interested in these subjects.
