Businesspeople argue that military-style command-and-control systems are out of date in a world of knowledge workers and fluid alliances.This argument provokes derision in the Special Forces Club.
Its software is almost ubiquitous on corporate desktops, but it has been slow to adapt to a world of mobile workers.
It follows Ms. Bolkovac's real-life assignment as a United Nations peacekeeper in Bosnia in the 1990s, a job that exposed her to a world of international workers complicit in and in many cases fostering the international trade of young women for sex.
But it is also creating a world of disempowered workers who have to labour in this on-demand world – the gig economy in which a working week is no more than a series of "gigs" contracted out by the online dispensers of on-demand work.
Stoll ridiculed the claims of "Internet hucksters" that we might someday buy books, music and airline tickets over the Internet, or make restaurant reservations, or that we'd live in a world of telecommuting workers and interactive libraries. .
A cult classic about a Dilbert-ized world of workers oppressed by an endless series of management fads.
In a world of digital finance, the worker on the line will be able to hedge financial risk as easily as DaimlerChrysler's CFO.
