Kindle Notes & Highlights
The often hard, hostile landscape of American capitalism has been remarkably hospitable to a long cavalcade of traveling medicine shows driven by management consultants purveying nostrums disguised as pet theories and systems.
being disgruntled is not exactly a disqualification for bringing a critical perspective to most any subject; often disgruntlement helps motivate and sharpen it.
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.”
I’ve had quite a bit of experience with the large gap that exists between those whose jobs take place behind executive doors and those whose jobs take place in more earthy environs, like cubes and factory floors, where one person’s pet theory is experienced as other peoples’ work day—their job’s conditions, compensation, and satisfaction.
