West wind by Mary Oliver

You are young, so you know everything.
You leap into the boat and begin rowing.
But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without
embarrassment, without any doubt, I talk
directly to your soul. Lift the oars from the
water, let your arms rest, and let your heart,
and heart's little intelligence, and listen to me.
There is life without love. Its not worth the
body of a dead dog nine days unburied.
When you hear, a mile away, and still out of
sight, the churn of the water as it begins to
swirl and roil, fretting around the sharp
rocks - when you hear that unmistakeable
pounding - when you feel the mist on your
mouth and sense ahead the embattlement,
the long falls plunging and streaming - then
row, row for your life toward it.

Mainstream business writers are talking about the quality of working relationships

Two recent books, one published by Wharton Business School called
"Firms of Endearment", written by Sisodia, Wolfe and Sheath (2007)
talks about the importance of a firms stakeholders and how well people
in a firm attend to and build relationships with all the stakeholders
who contribute to success.

http://www.firmsofendearment.com/

The other, written by Robert Sutton, professor of management science
and engineering at Stanford University, called "The No Asshole Rule:
Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't", (New
York: Warner Business Books, 2007), is the subject of a McKinsey
Quarterly article here:

http://www.successfactors.com/docs/McKinseyQuarterly-Q107.pdf

The focus on this book is on the quality of internal working
relationships and what happens if an organisation does nothing in
response to people who behave like "jerks" to one another. It leads
with a piece on SuccessFactors, one of the fastest growing firms in
the world, which requires new employees to sign up to rules of
engagement which include, at number 14: "I will be a good person to
work with - I will not be a jerk"

http://www.successfactors.com/company/rules/

What are your thoughts? Is this a passing interest or likely to
indicate real curiosity in the nature of relationships at work?