The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work

Author: Mats Alvesson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Something strange is happening in our knowledge economy: organisations everywhere are encouraging smart people to do stupid things. At its extremes, this kind of systematic stupidity can be catastrophic: witness the institutional blindness in financial services that led to the crisis of 2008. But we can all relate to more everyday examples of losing touch with the need to question the dubious and criticise the absurd, from unsustainable management fads or...Read more