Leadership and the Culture of Simulation.

So management science today is about leaders producing a view of “external reality” from the raw material of a kind of “management television” — the output of the literary industrial complex — to create reality distortion fields within which everybody else must function.

Through the power of television, I knew that lions were large, proud creatures that roared and lived in Africa. But one day my father took me to see the big cats at the Bronx Zoo. I could barely relate the coarse, smelly creatures in front of me—lying docile and panting in their cages while flies buzzed around their heads—to what I had witnessed fr

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