mills:

This essay in particular explores the quasi-religious quality of “management theory” as developed and practiced, in all seriousness, by men like Stephen Covey, and it asserts that this framework of values and ideas has an implicitly religious quality: it defines the moral self for the modern American (excluding countercultural groups), and as such should be studied if we are to understand what selfhood means in the consumer capitalist world of the present, when it very obviously doesn’t mean what it once did.

Indeed. I completely agree with this thesis, but I don’t even know where to begin when discussing it - other than casually directing readers to an old essay of  mine on corporatism.

… but that doesn’t touch on the personal aspects of corporatism.