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Management Myth : Debunking Modern Business Philosophy

ISBN: 9780393338522 | 0393338525
Edition: 00
Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 8/17/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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... MORE
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The Accidental Consultantp. 1
Doing Things with Numbers
The Whalep. 17
The Pig-Iron Talep. 27
College Manp. 43
The Truth about the Pigsp. 47
The Art of Hunting Whalesp. 61
The Management Idolp. 73
Return to Shorep. 81
Putting People First
Independence Dayp. 87
The Ideological Origins of the Humanist Revolutionp. 97
The Counterrevolutionp. 122
The Proper Study of Humankindp. 127
The Pyramid and Its Discontentsp. 139
Thinking Ahead
How Strategy Became a Businessp. 151
A Case Study in Strategyp. 169
Planning While Rome Burnsp. 177
How to Profit from Planningp. 188
What Consultants Talk about When They Talk about Strategyp. 194
Consultant, Consult Thyselfp. 199
Strategy in the Classroomp. 202
The Market Value of Strategyp. 220
Striving for Excellence
Tom Peters Talks to Godp. 229
Free at Lastp. 235
The Science of Excellencep. 242
The Trialp. 252
How to Become a Management Guru in Five Easy Stepsp. 261
The Promised Landp. 282
The Future of Management Educationp. 289
Selected Referencesp. 305
Bibliographical Appendixp. 313
Notesp. 317
Acknowledgmentsp. 329
Indexp. 331
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Matthew Stewart is a former management consultant and the author of the acclaimed The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World. He lives with his family in Santa Barbara, California, and is the Gilder Lehrman Fellow in American History at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library for 2010-11.


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