Bluffocracy
Ball, James (Journalist)2018
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Britain is run by people who are bluffing. At the top of our government, our media, the civil service and business sit men - it's usually men - whose core skill is talking fast, writing well, and endeavouring to imbue the purest wind with substance. They know a little bit about everything, and an awful lot about nothing. We know because we've seen them - and we've been those men. The UK establishment has signed up to the cult of winging it, of pretending to hold all the aces when you actually hold a pair of twos. It prizes 'transferable skills', rewarding the general over the specific - and yet across the country we struggle to hire doctors, engineers, coders and more. This book chronicles how the UK became hooked on bluffing, how it became what we teach, what we promote, and the rules of a game that we all feel the consequences of - and why we have to stop it.
Main title:
Bluffocracy / James Ball and Andrew Greenway.
Author:
Ball, James (Journalist), authorGreenway, Andrew, author
Imprint:
London : Biteback Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
xvii, 102 pages ; 19 cm.
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ISBN:
9781785904110 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
Communication in politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st centuryCommunication in organizations -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st centuryTruthfulness and falsehood -- Great BritainGreat Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st centuryGreat Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st centuryGreat Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryPolitics and Government
BRN:
1205402
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