Book : The Management Myth Debunking Modern Business...

-Titulo Original : The Management Myth Debunking Modern Business Philosophy

-Fabricante :

W. W. Norton & Company

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Review Entertaining and slightly shocking. Jill Lepore, The New YorkerConsistently entertaining and enlightening. Harvard Business ReviewGleefully revealing the magician’s tricks, Stewart takes readers on a whirlwind tour of how [the consulting] industry came to be a powerhouse. Filled with fascinating insider anecdotes and featuring a who’s who in the consulting world…this wry, absorbing book will enlighten executives about the value consultants actually bring to their clients. Publishers Weekly A devastating bombardment of managerial thinking and the profession of management consulting…A serious and valuable polemic. Wall Street JournalFresh 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. From the Back Cover Praise for The Management Myth At last, a book that knocks the Kings of Consulting off their thrones. The Management Myth is a rare and often very humorous expose on the shenanigans behind the corporate empire that has catapulted us down the current road to economic turmoil.-John Perkins, best-selling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire Filled with fascinating insider anecdotes and featuring a whos who of the consulting world . . . this book will enlighten executives.-Publishers Weekly About the Author Matthew Stewart is the author of Natures God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic,The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World and The Management Myth: Debunking the Modern Philosophy of Business. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.