New Book Debunks Myth of Knowledge Economy
Ever wondered why there are so many ‘Vice Presidents’ at your workplace? Or how everyone can have a complex-sounding degree, when there are university courses on Star Trek? Do you feel like the nice suits, Power Points and corporate speak are increasingly meaningless?According to Professor Mats Alvesson, who previously gave us the highly publicized theory on ‘functional stupidity’ in organizations, these are only some of the ‘illusion tricks’ we deploy in our post-affluent Western society. Our contemporary culture is one of grandiosity and narcissism, he argues, triggered by our move