The end of management

I have become increasingly fascinated by the discrepancy between managers who think they’re the dog’s bollocks and employees who think they’re crap.

Now there is a new book out by Charles Jacobs called “Management Rewired” that might be on to an explanation: We humans are much more emotional than rational, he says, and what managers do is exclusively rational. Jacobs says that today’s management is “more suited to forms of life lacking the ability to think.”

That means that if you think your boss is an idiot, it doesn’t mean you have a problem with authority. It just means your mind is working.