I've just suffered a most horrendous fortnight of coughing fits that kept me up at night, and now the headaches. But let's talk about WeWork. A few weeks ago, for some unknown reason, I saw on TV a documentary about WeWork (which has since filed for bankruptcy ). I've seen this business being advertised on TV but had zero interest in it. Picture source But there I was having afternoon tea with my family with the TV on in the background, and listening to previous employees of WeWork talk about its founder Adam Neumann. Within minutes I turned to my "boys" to say, "It is a cult." Grounded in my research in sociology of religion, I saw that WeWork functioned essentially as a cult. Its leader could do no wrong. What the leader says, goes, and information is not triangulated, tested against other sets of evidence. If an employee has a problem, "Adam will solve it." Those are just some of the warning signs. Alarm bells should have been ringing. For
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