![]() ![]() His most important and hush-hush project is to jump ship to MythTech, a mysterious Omaha company renowned for its esoteric management consulting. ![]() He also wants to market Sandor Pinter, a Peter Drucker–like management guru, through posters, coffee cups and the usual familiar detritus of pop culture. He's written a business allegory, for one thing, which he hopes to place with a management science publisher. His ultimate goal is accumulating one million frequent flier miles, but he has a few other projects he hasn't told headquarters about. In this world, being fired has been euphemized into "career transition." Ryan Bingham is a career transition counselor for a firm based in Denver. ![]() The message of Kirn's new novel is that the "dark Satanic mills" that power the capitalist system no longer run on the sweat of the laboring masses-they are now fueled by the hot air of the therapeutic-industrial complex, that weird construct made of a thousand management strategy companies and their attendant conferences. ![]()
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