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REVIEW: Scaling People, by Claire Hughes Johnson

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Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe Press, 2023).

Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe Press, 2023). This is a bad book. Usually we review books that we like. Sometimes we make an exception and review a book we don’t like, but which is nonetheless extremely interesting. Unfortunately, this book isn’t interesting either. What it is is important, both for what it tells us about some trends in Silicon Valley corporate management and about the broader ideology of the American ruling class. First, a methodological note: in preparing to write this book review, I interviewed former leaders in…

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