“The era of the business idiot”

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 problem and solve it. … <a href=“https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/87215" …