This is some truths, mixed with half truths, mixed with made up pop psychology, wrapped in a rug of made up bullshit, served on a platter of popular culture references for consumption by people that are starving for structure.
This is some truths, mixed with half truths, mixed with made up pop psychology, wrapped in a rug of made up bullshit, served on a platter of popular culture references for consumption by people that are starving for structure.
That's a very poetic criticism and all, but I guess it doesn't really mean anything.
The situation is this: Many professionals (such as myself) find the world of business entirely irrational and unpredictable. Those like me are trying to make heads or tails of it and often just resort to humor (Dilbert, the Office, Silicon Valley) which gives us the simplistic narrative -> other people are crazy.
But some of us know there's more to it than that, and are actually trying to wrap our heads around it. It's not clear if you don't think understanding work matters or if you think there's a better source of truth for explaining the massive irrationalities of work.
Either way, poetry doesn't really establish or disprove anything.
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Edit: For those like me who are searching for patterns among the chaos of human group behavior, I suggest the books "Moral Mazes" and "Games People Play"
It reminded me of some ideas from socionics though, mainly how strengths and weaknesses create relationship types
The whole "Gervais Principle" thing is a model, but this part in particular highlights the curse of development, which is a very specific and useful model.
It essentially says that in an argument, you have to be much more knowledgeable/experienced than your interlocutor, in order to be able to confidently put down the wrong arguments he makes confidently.
It is widely applicable: from teaching computer science to discussing politics.