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To judge from the public’s awareness of major issues, what readers need is not more input into the stories, but basic information, including the occasional map with a “You Are Here” pointer on it. It is difficult to imagine a media outlet in a less competitive, less crowded market asking its readers what they want in the same way, but in a market glutted by information, it was only a matter of time before the tables were turned and journalists were asking readers what they would like to read instead of informing them about things they must know.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
As members of a particular family, they want their children to have every privilege. But at the same time they are opposed to privilege for anyone else's children. They desire equal opportunity for everyone else's children, extra for their own.
The Rise of the Meritocracy
Michael Young
This is the true lesson in leading from the real world: a leader is someone who has followers, plain and simple. The only determinant of whether anyone is leading is whether anyone else is following. This might seem like an obvious statement, until we recall how easily we overlook its implications. Followers—their needs, their feelings, their fears and hopes—are strangely absent when we speak of leaders as exemplars of strategy, execution, vision, oratory, relationships, charisma, and so on. The idea of leadership is missing the idea of followers. It’s missing the idea that our subject here is, at heart, a question of a particularly human relationship—namely, why anyone would choose to devote his or her energies to, and to take risks on behalf of, someone else. And, in that, it’s missing the entire point.1
Nine Lies About Work
Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
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