Could I have Madeoff by Faking Authenticity?
In a year where banks showed that what once looked like solid profits was in many cases a mirage, could I have madeoff by faking authenticity.
OK these two words side by side sound like strange bedfellows.
I got started on the topic after reading the Outside Edge column If you can fake it, you will make it by Jonathan Guthrie (FT, December 28).
He notes:
This led me in turn to Fake Authenticity: An Introduction by Joshua Glenn for Real? Fake 'Hermenaut' magazine.
You have to give him kudos for managing to quote Jean-Paul Sartre and an SUV ad in the same paragraph.
He who might not be Joshua Glenn also wonders:
Can the next big career coach-reinvention guru become successful by promising that nothing she/he says is true?
Irony, existentialism and city slickers on the menu for Monday Work Etiquette # 70
Previously: Forced to Take a Holiday Break (as in Silicon Valley) How do you take it?