Doing Meritocracy Right: How Business Leaders Can Turn an American Aspiration into Reality (and Why They Should)

A practical guide to more fully achieving a meritocratic society.

As America's most vaunted cultural value, meritocracy is celebrated by some as an institution and derided by others as a myth—or even a trap. Thomas A. Cole argues in Doing Meritocracy Right that if meritocracy is to persist as an institution—and it must—it requires structural support in the private sector. For America to achieve a version of meritocracy that more closely matches our aspirations, our business leaders must f...