I know of a manager who unironically believes this for internal corporate technical reports (ours are academic style and more rigorous and formal than they need be…). It’s not quite to this extent, but I’ve overheard conversations where the manager apparently can’t fathom why their subordinates are incapable of double digits over a year.
Liberal mem-
bers of the credentialed classes love to use the word empower
when they talk about “people,” but the use of that verb objecti-
fies the recipients of their help while implying that the people
have no access to power without them.
I know of a manager who unironically believes this for internal corporate technical reports (ours are academic style and more rigorous and formal than they need be…). It’s not quite to this extent, but I’ve overheard conversations where the manager apparently can’t fathom why their subordinates are incapable of double digits over a year.
https://classautonomy.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Forerunners_-Ideas-First-Catherine-Liu-Virtue-Hoarders_-The-Case-against-the-Professional-Managerial-Class-University-of-Minnesota-Press-2020.pdf
The first chapter of this may be cathartic.
I’m loving just the introduction.
Yes, this is what I meant.