Tag: capitalism
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Servants of the Damned by David Enrich
This shares a lot of DNA with When McKinsey Comes to Town. In some ways, it’s the book I was hoping to read when I picked that one up. It is great, but has a flaw similar to the McKinsey book, in that the author gets in his own way. It’s split into three parts, each…
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Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison
I’m not sure if this was originally planned as a long read for Bloomberg or Wired or something, but it seemed to me to be very padded. I really struggled to stay engaged. We learn the backstory of figures that appear for a single chapter. There is a lot of inside-baseball HR stuff that is…
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When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich
If you don’t know McKinsey or the world in which they operate, much of this will be eye-opening and enraging. At this point in America’s history though, it all feels depressingly unsurprising, part-and-parcel of How America Does Business.