Simon Head: 2 books
The New Ruthless Economy
Work and Power in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
In the great boom of the 1990's, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all. This wages stagnation has baffled experts, but in The New Ruthless Economy, Simon Head points to information technology as the prime cause of this growing wage disparity. Many...
Mindless
Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)-the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array...