I know of a manager who unironically believes this for internal corporate technical reports (ours are academic style and more rigorous and formal than they need be…). It’s not quite to this extent, but I’ve overheard conversations where the manager apparently can’t fathom why their subordinates are incapable of double digits over a year.
I know of a manager who unironically believes this for internal corporate technical reports (ours are academic style and more rigorous and formal than they need be…). It’s not quite to this extent, but I’ve overheard conversations where the manager apparently can’t fathom why their subordinates are incapable of double digits over a year.
https://classautonomy.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Forerunners_-Ideas-First-Catherine-Liu-Virtue-Hoarders_-The-Case-against-the-Professional-Managerial-Class-University-of-Minnesota-Press-2020.pdf
The first chapter of this may be cathartic.