Andrew Palmer writes Bartleby, our column on the world of work and management. The talented jerk is someone who is really good at their job but so unpleasant that he makes people around him miserable. Some firms have very explicit rules against them; Netflix's hiring page says there are no brilliant jerks.
The International Monetary Fund is sitting on oodles of cash, but failing to disburse it. We examine why China’s lending practices are putting the IMF on a path to irrelevance. Climate change is already squeezing farmers in Latin America; some outright crazy agricultural policies are making matters worse. And reasons not to ban a well-known workplace species: the “talented jerk”.
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