The Psychology & Pathology of BigTech: Technology is now the dominant parasite and the psychological pathology that has reduced you & your business to "dope on a rope"

By Tom Pickering

Have leaders run out of moral authority? Are we losing sight of what good looks like? The overwhelming evidence in this book suggests so.

Is the Big Tech parasite controlling our attention, short-circuiting the dopamine and serotonin we would glean from natural group relationships, and destroying the fabric of society, business and wellbeing?

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Icebreaker Executive Interim Management Limit
• Release date: Aug 13, 2021
• ISBN: 9781919633756

Tom Pickering

The Evil of Silence precedes the debate presented in Tom Pickering's latest book, Why Can't We Stop! How to Avoid Menticide: The 2020's Cause of Acting & Thinking Recklessly. Written by an unapologetic, quick-witted, hands-on business turnaround expert, portfolio chair, CEO, former Tech Silicon Valley Exec & MBA Masterclass Leader, the book offers a pragmatic take on the consequences of staying silent in a world that is in desperate need of social change.

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Introduction

The Psychology & Pathology of BigTech: Technology is now the dominant parasite and the psychological pathology that has reduced you & your business to dope on a rope

Have leaders run out of moral authority?

Are we losing sight of what good looks like?

Is the Big Tech parasite controlling our attention, short-circuiting the dopamine and serotonin we would glean from natural group relationships, and destroying the fabric of society, business and wellbeing?

The overwhelming evidence in this book suggests so.

Business leaders have lost sight of what good looks like and are now as addicted to tech as their kids. Growth and development are more about obsessively and recklessly deploying technology – automating systems and reducing work – and less about people, relationships and contributing to society.

Dope on a Rope to tech – that's what intelligent leaders have become. And they're so duped and terrified by wokeness and post-modernism that they are being blindsided.  

Tech is a convenient tool to silence the masses, bog people down in minutiae and quell conflict at individual and national levels. It is not ‘the future’. We do not have to upskill our tech skills to stay ahead.

We need to learn how we are being duped and upskill to get a better grip on how to stop the inevitable Big Tech rampage before it’s too late.

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Forward

We cannot move forwards without sacrifice, much-emerging technology must be sacrificed.

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Reckless - You are dope on a rope

Technology is the dominant parasite and the pathology destroying the fabric of society, business, and wellbeing.

Business leaders have lost sight of what good looks like and are now addicted to tech. So they are obsessively and recklessly deploying technology: automating, reducing work, and naively deploying technology regardless of and without sufficient knowledge of the people or broader societal implications.

Intelligent leaders are unaware of how they have become dope on the rope to tech - fearful of getting duped by wokeness and post-modernism. These are convenient tools to silence the masses. Silence suits the tech tyranny to quell conflict at individual and national levels as it unfolds. 

Because leaders are duped into thinking technology is now the future they don’t consider that they might need to upskill to see this or cope... 

So, guess what...? We are getting nasty results and losing sight of what good looks like.

• Mental health crisis

• Panic – increasing speed

• Environmental destruction

• Tyranny and silencing

So, this book is drawn from hard experience and many thought-provoking keynote speeches I’ve given over the last few years. I explain how Bigtech type technology is simply parasitic and preys on anything of value: you, your business, and our wellbeing, and why we don't see this, and why we can’t stop.

Enjoy.

It's time to get back to business basics reset the paradigms that are driving this madness away from growth and domination to profit and relationships or this crisis will just escalate. A common response is not knowing – that’s not good enough if we are taking actions, that in our hearts, we know to be wrong?

It’s very tough to overcome our pride when we might have made a significant misjudgement. Does this mean we might need to face up to the fact