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> What's so bad about... mediocrity?

Nothing, if company managers would admit it.

Instinctively, they know it. The old cult of management-as-a-profession believes that by skillfully directing the activities of replaceable cogs, a company's managers can achieve outsized results.

But they can't admit it because they're afraid that knowledge would demotivate the replaceable cogs.



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