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There may be a [[chief operating officer]], but she will be an accountant with an [[MBA]], a postgraduate degree singularly [[calculated]] to render an otherwise useful professional calling into an amorphous morass of hackneyed [[outsourcing]] strategies. | There may be a [[chief operating officer]], but she will be an accountant with an [[MBA]], a postgraduate degree singularly [[calculated]] to render an otherwise useful professional calling into an amorphous morass of hackneyed [[outsourcing]] strategies. | ||
To be sure there are far too many white, cis-gendered, London-based, middle-aged men in management roles, but the problem | To be sure there are far too many white, cis-gendered, London-based, middle-aged men in management roles, but the problem isn’t that they are specifically white, or hetero, or male: it is that through the monstrous meat-grinding systems that shape industry — the education, the professional homogenisation, the intellectual acculturation that weeds out anyone who doesn’t fit a tight profile moulded in the image of those whose are already at the top of the industry, the people who made it to the top of the industry are ''mediocre'' and they are all the same. This mechanism, by the way, exists in every intellectual [[paradigm]].<ref>See {{author|Thomas Kuhn}}’s fabulous {{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}}.</ref> | ||
Their homogeneity is a symptom of mediocrity that is driven by something else, not a cause. These people may be disproportionately white, straight and male, but that isn’t what makes them sappingly dull. It isn’t clear how switching the fellas out for ''other'' university-educated, north-London inhabiting, [[MBA]] alumni — only ones who are not caucasian, male or straight — but who have nonetheless been ''systematically beaten into exactly the same mental space'', would make a difference. | Their homogeneity is a symptom of mediocrity that is driven by something else, not a cause. These people may be disproportionately white, straight and male, but that isn’t what makes them sappingly dull. It isn’t clear how switching the fellas out for ''other'' university-educated, north-London inhabiting, [[MBA]] alumni — only ones who are not caucasian, male or straight — but who have nonetheless been ''systematically beaten into exactly the same mental space'', would make a difference. | ||
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*[[Complexity]] | *[[Complexity]] | ||
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