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Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy

The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy

By Matthew Stewart

Combining hands-on experience with contemporary fads in efficiency improvement, empowerment, and strategy, Stewart lays bare how little consultants have really done for the business of others--while making a killing for themselves.

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/16/2010
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780393338522
ISBN-10: 0393338525
Language: English

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Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant. But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies.

In narrating his own ill-fated (and often hilarious) odyssey at a top-tier firm, Stewart turns the consultant's merciless, penetrating eye on the management industry itself. The Management Myth offers an insightful romp through the entire history of thinking about management, a withering critique of pseudoscience in management theory, and a clear explanation of why the MBA usually amounts to so much BS--leading us through the wilderness of American business thought.

About the Author

Matthew Stewart is an independent philosopher and historian who has written extensively about the philosophical origins of the American republic and the history of management.

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