The myth of management

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6 responses to “The myth of management”

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   April 27, 2009

   Cody Dream-Life-Coaching

   Bad management education exists as well as good. I’ve seen great material, Jim Rohn for example and I have seen terrible advice also. It’s like everything in life. The danger of being to cynical is that you close yourself to material that might well be truly great.
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   April 27, 2009

   Lars Hansen

   Moreover, much business literature is logically flawed to begin with:

   http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/12/luck_inc/?page=1

   In general, I consider most management and business literature to be deeply unscientific (even when it claims to be otherwise).

   This does however not mean that all obervations in such literature is wrong. But a healthy dose of scepticism is certainly required.
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   April 27, 2009

   Diego

   Thanks for the link Alexander, that’s a very interesting article.
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   April 28, 2009

   ron

   I agree to the point that there is a lot of rubbish in the field of management books. However there are also true gems in this sector.

   My recommendation: read books by successful people in the field, bios etc., and not from people who never were entrepreneurs or at least worked successfully in the field of management.

   Academic advice is useful but I prefer 1st hand information on the path to personal success and not theoretical approaches without the risk of total failure.
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   May 12, 2009

   Lynn Ferguson

   The post was quite detailed, I found myself disagreeing with the tone even though I was in agreement with most of the content. I think however there is a key perspective missing. Education in any discipline is about teaching people how to learn and to expand their mindset. This is significantly enhanced or destroyed based on the quality of the teacher. So I would not wash all “business schools and management training” with the same brush. I write this with a biased opinion holding both an undergrad in business and an MBA. I was fortunate to have some outstanding teachers and feel that I greatly benefited from the experience.

   Lynn
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   January 18, 2011

   THE ARGUIST

   Management is needed. Many “managers” are not. The problem with modern management ids that too many of its practitioners are arseholes. And “know-nothing” arseholes at that, Luckily for them the cult has made many of them unaccountable.

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