Against Managerialism
“Right now, we have a crisis of leadership because we have a lot of un-whole people running the show. We can’t fault those people...they played the game as it was meant to be played. But, we can do better. And we must... We have a system built from a wounded, fragmented collective psyche that rewards unconscious, fragmented actions. It’s winner tak... See more
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
The explosion of paperwork, in turn, is a direct result of the introduction of corporate management techniques, which are always justified as ways of increasing efficiency, by introducing competition at every level. What these management techniques invariably end up meaning in practice is that everyone winds up spending most of their time trying to... See more
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Twenty-first-century organizations don’t manage by monologues solemnly intoned from the inside out and the top down. They manage through dialogue that starts from the outside in and the bottom up. By democratizing decision making in a multitude of ways, constructive capitalists are able to allocate resources with maximum agility.
Umair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
The establishment of more schools in Malaysia or Brazil teaches people the accountant’s view of the value of time, the bureaucrat’s view of the value of promotion, the salesman’s view of the value of increased consumption, and the union leader’s view of the purpose of work.