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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Rather than convert oneself hastily into an intellectual, it is better to recruit defecting counter-intellectuals. But how can they be identified? Well, ‘if you decide to go exploring for oil, you find a competent geologist. Similarly, if you wish to make productive investments in the intellectual and educational worlds, you find competent intellectuals and scholars – “dissident” members as it were, of the New Class – to offer guidance’. The project aimed explicitly at shaping a ‘counter-intelligentsia’, an intellectual community aligned with business interests.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Executives are not paid for doing things they like to do. They are paid for getting the right things done—most of all in their specific task, the making of effective decisions.
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
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