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CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life
Contributor(s): Bloom, Peter (Author), Rhodes, Carl (Author)
ISBN: 1786990725     ISBN-13: 9781786990723
Publisher: Zed Books
OUR PRICE:   $23.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Government & Business
- Business & Economics | Leadership
- Political Science | Political Process - General
Dewey: 658.42
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 288 pages
 
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Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have become the cultural icons of the 21st century. Figures like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are held up as role models who epitomise the modern pursuit of innovation, wealth and success. We now live, Bloom and Rhodes argue, in a 'CEO society' - a society where corporate leadership has become the model for transforming not just business, but all spheres of life, where everyone from politicians to jobseekers to even those seeking love are expected to imitate the qualities of the lionized corporate executive.

But why, in the wake of the failings exposed by the 2008 financial crisis, does the corporate ideal continue to exert such a grip on popular attitudes? In this insightful new book, Bloom and Rhodes examine the rise of the CEO society, and how it has started to transform governments, culture and the economy. This influence, they argue, holds troubling implications for the future of democracy - as evidenced by the disturbing political rise of Donald Trump in the US - and for our society as a whole.

Contributor Bio(s): Bloom, Peter: - Peter Bloom heads the People and Organisations Department at the Open University, UK. His recent books include The CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Lifeand The Ethics of Neoliberalism: The Business of Making Capitalism Moral. He has written for the Washington Post, Guardian, and NewStatesman.Rhodes, Carl: - Carl Rhodes is professor of management and organization studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture and coauthor of the Companion to Ethics and Politics in Organizations.