A Report So Stupid Only a “Thought Leader” Could Have Written It

By Alex Usher. The week before last, Deloitte – that redoubtable home for “Big Thinking” management consultant types who are nevertheless not big-enough-thinking for McKinsey – released a paper entitled The Intelligence Revolution: Future Proofing Canada’s Workforce.  To call it as dumb as a bag of hammers would be deeply unfair to hand tools.  Do you remember Otto, Kevin Kline’s character from A Fish Called Wanda?  The one who thought he was an intellectual despite his evident vacuity?  This paper is the literary embodiment of Otto. More...