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The screenshot above is from a bullshit Harvard Business Review article about “making work purposeful” — go tell an executive that’s the point of work and he’ll spit in your mouth — and if you watch the tight rope that the authors (analysts at Bain) are walking, it’s almost comical. Basically, these guys are describing WalMart’s efforts to automate workers out as “making work interesting.” LOL. It’s not even in the same county or state. If WalMart cared about work being interesting, they would tell you “Hey, probably don’t work at this WalMart.” I know executive-level guys there who are bored most of the day. That place is a machine. It kinda does itself these days. But on the floor level? Absolutely these paragraphs above aren’t about “interesting work.” They’re about smart tech taking jobs. It’s ROFL.
Places like Bain and Gartner run stuff like this in biz rags all the time. It’s all roughly equivalent to toilet paper. Gartner, a year or so ago, ran something about HR leaders. First off, who cares what HR leaders think? They don’t understand the business in 90% of cases. Second off, they completely ignored the idea of “social desirability bias.” If you’re a MBA from Wharton and you’re just writing stuff in a vacuum, that’s kinda lame, no?
I worked with a dude named Lance Haun at a place called Starr Conspiracy for a bit. Here is Lance’s tweeter device…
