Well, as a next step it might be interesting to investigate the 'professors' who were his 'dissertation' advisors, to see if they are also in the club.
I watched my graduate school, or at least the coaching program, therein, become infested with this nonsense, and I believe that several LEC members are in place, there.
The research 'model' for this thing is really funky...as in, what's the point??? We have an individual who is trying to deal with his own cognitive dissonance about an organization he perceives in a certain way, and other's -- MANY -- perceive in a different way.
Honestly, a doctoral dissertation is supposed to deliver some learning that would be useful to other scholars and practitioners in a field. This student was just playing mind games with himself...and, was evidently encouraged to do so by his advisors.
As usual, no attempt is made to talk to, interview people who have opinions other than his own. That would be pretty normal if one really cared about exploring a gap in perception.
And, this reminds me of the Vikki Brock opus, which also acts as a Landmark commercial.
Perhaps, we can classify these as constituting a new academic genre, the disser-mercial. Werner Erhard's 'work' is very much like this...never peer-reviewed, self-published, and then trumpeted on his website.
I watched my graduate school, or at least the coaching program, therein, become infested with this nonsense, and I believe that several LEC members are in place, there.
The research 'model' for this thing is really funky...as in, what's the point??? We have an individual who is trying to deal with his own cognitive dissonance about an organization he perceives in a certain way, and other's -- MANY -- perceive in a different way.
Honestly, a doctoral dissertation is supposed to deliver some learning that would be useful to other scholars and practitioners in a field. This student was just playing mind games with himself...and, was evidently encouraged to do so by his advisors.
As usual, no attempt is made to talk to, interview people who have opinions other than his own. That would be pretty normal if one really cared about exploring a gap in perception.
And, this reminds me of the Vikki Brock opus, which also acts as a Landmark commercial.
Perhaps, we can classify these as constituting a new academic genre, the disser-mercial. Werner Erhard's 'work' is very much like this...never peer-reviewed, self-published, and then trumpeted on his website.