SPECIAL FEATURE: Creativity suffocated by managerialism and HR*

Of all the airhead nonsense bequeathed to us in the past 40 years by the pincer movements of postmodernism on the left and economic rationalism on the right, managerialism has been the most insidious, undermining our companies, universities and public service departments.Have you ever seen the Russian film Burnt By The Sun, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov? It tells the story of a famous Russian colonel, a military hero of the Bolshevik revolution, who is living with his wife and small daughter at h…

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