"The era of the business idiot"

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Authors: Arthur Charpentier
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Abstract

This post was initially written in French https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/87139. Last spring, Ed Zitron published a fascinating text, and yes, a bit long, The Era Of The Business Idiot, which I only discovered at the start of the holidays (sorry). He does not just say that some organizations are badly managed, he describes a type of social selection. He explains that you climb the hierarchy because you know how to produce signs of competence, not because you know how to understand a p...

Fields of Study & Subjects

Management and Organizational Studies Business Strategies and Innovation Leadership and Management in Organizations

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Journal / source
Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)
Publication date
1 January 2026