Pawn Power
22nd August 2008, 03:43
What They Teach you at Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism by Philip Delves Broughton (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4443213.ece)
He is surprised at the large presence of earnest Mormons and unimaginative former-military men in this cauldron of capitalism. But gradually this begins to make sense, for HBS is pervaded with an oppressive atmosphere of unquestioning obedience and creepy religiosity. There is the confessional My Reflected Best-Self exercise, to encourage students to create a developmental agenda for leveraging their reflected best-self and work maximally from positions of strength. Approved results sound like this: I do not take on the negative energy of the insecure . . . I stay centred . . . I try to model the message of integrity, growth and transformation. Delves Broughton is quietly incredulous that people actually talk about themselves like this, in public, straight-faced.
He is surprised at the large presence of earnest Mormons and unimaginative former-military men in this cauldron of capitalism. But gradually this begins to make sense, for HBS is pervaded with an oppressive atmosphere of unquestioning obedience and creepy religiosity. There is the confessional My Reflected Best-Self exercise, to encourage students to create a developmental agenda for leveraging their reflected best-self and work maximally from positions of strength. Approved results sound like this: I do not take on the negative energy of the insecure . . . I stay centred . . . I try to model the message of integrity, growth and transformation. Delves Broughton is quietly incredulous that people actually talk about themselves like this, in public, straight-faced.