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Why isn’t meritocracy working?
精英體制爲何失靈?

As profession-based privilege supplants hereditary privilege, three new books champion essential blue-collar skills
福魯哈爾:三本新書剖析了現代精英體制的弊端,讚頌在抗疫期間被證明不可或缺的基本藍領技能。

Several years ago, a wise colleague wrote a wonderfully contrarian column arguing that no organisation should hire more than a few very clever people. Sure, they’re great with facts, abstract ideas and vigorous debate. But put too many of them in a room together, and they can gum up the system with their love of complexity and conflict.

幾年前,一位睿智的同事寫了一篇精彩的逆向思維專欄文章,認爲任何組織都不應該聘用超過幾個非常聰明的人。沒錯,這些人擅長分析事實,把握抽象理念,展開激烈的辯論。但是把太多的這種人放在一個房間裏,他們會因爲喜歡複雜性和衝突而搞亂整個系統。

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