"It is easy for him who keeps his foot free from harm to counsel and admonish him who is in misery" (Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound") If there is any succinct way of expressing the reality of corporate life is that is is a permanent, pervasive state of hostile cooperation. This state is present -with very rare … Continue reading “Hostile Cooperation”

It is not a recent revelation that modernity comes with a peculiar form of loss of humanity. We are lost in fear, subject to anomic and anonymous forces claiming for themselves the name of Society. In this context: "Anxiety  can  mount authentically only in  a Dasein which is  resolute.  He who is  resolute knows no … Continue reading Anxiety and Authenticity

I was browsing today the publications index of the Harvard Business Review and found 960 articles dedicated to the subject of leadership. Years of publications. If only one of these articles were complete, in the sense that it addressed not only the subject of leadership but also the causes of the total lack of leadership … Continue reading “Leadership”

David Graeber is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics "Once, when contemplating the apparently endless growth of administrative responsibilities in British academic departments, I came up with one possible vision of hell. Hell is a collection of individuals who are spending the bulk of their time working on a task they don’t … Continue reading David Graeber: “a possible vision of hell”