"The era of the business idiot"
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
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026