Like A Child Star Whose Fame Fades

One Doesn't Have To Be A Marxist To Be Awed By The Scale And Success Of Early-20th-cent Ury Efforts To Transform Strong-willed Human Beings Into Docile Employees.

Power Has Long Been Regarded As Morally Corrosive, And We Often Suspect The Intentions Of Those Who Seek It.

In A Well-functioning Democracy, Citizens Have The Option Of Voting Their Political Masters Out Of Office. Not So In Most Companies.

Top-down Authority Structures Turn Employees Into Bootlickers, Breed Pointless Struggles For Political Advantage, And Discourage Dissent.

Never Before Has The Gap Between What We Can Imagine And What We Can Accomplish Been Smaller.