David Bolchover

David Bolchover is a British management writer. He is known for his criticism of the abuse of the concept of “talent” in the workplace, which he believes has been designed to raise the pay of eminently replaceable but well-positioned employees.[1]

Theory

He has also set out the theory that artificially high remuneration in the finance sector and in the upper reaches of the corporate world is detrimental to innovation, as the pursuit of risk-free wealth is seen by many employees to be preferable to the perils of entrepreneurship.[2] In his book, "Pay Check", he expounds and further develops these ideas, concluding that capitalism has been captured by a new “talent” class of employees, who extract the lion’s share of the rewards within the system without contributing anything new or taking any risk.

Research and influence

Bolchover also coined the term “The Living Dead” to describe demotivated, disengaged employees, a group he believes is much larger than generally recognised.[3]

Much of Bolchover’s research on management has focused on professional sports. He has written that the greater transparency and meritocracy of sport has created higher management standards than in the corporate world.[4]

Books
  • Pay Check (2010)
  • The Living Dead (2005)
  • The 90-Minute Manager (2002)
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gollark: It's a shame fractalart cannot be GPU accelerated because it's QUITE SLOW.
gollark: It's a bit hard to retrieve the tape, though.
gollark: Most GPUs actually have onboard MEMS printers which can write to microscale tapes.
gollark: It would be cool and good™ if all IP packets between two systems were automagically encrypted, apart from in the ways in which this would be uncool and bad™.

References
  1. "The Myth of Talent", MoneyWeek. 26 January 2010
  2. Bolchover, David (29 December 2006). "The City bonus bonanza is bad for capitalism". London: The Times.
  3. "Books of the year 2006" (PDF). Management Today. Dec 2006.
  4. "The World Cup: Lessons for Managers". Economist Intelligence Unit. 6 July 2006.



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