A future without a work ethic? Where have the doers gone? Plenty of intelligent and well-educated young people want status and money, but no effort and certainly not too much responsibility at work. Posing instead of performing: A pseudo-elite, the supposed pillar of future society, is self-satisfied, greedy, and grossly overestimates itself. The true performance elite is becoming increasingly smaller, observes business administration professor Evi Hartmann. Instead, a culture of performance refusal is spreading epidemic-like, well disguised as work-life balance. How is it possible that in times of enormous economic and political challenges, more and more people choose to sit back instead of taking action? Hartmann's book is a call for a new work ethic and a more intense life - not just for Generation Y!.