The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy

The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy

by Matthew Stewart (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 343
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 14 Sep 2010

ISBN 10: 0393338525
ISBN 13: 9780393338522

Media Reviews
Entertaining and slightly shocking. -- Jill Lepore - The New Yorker
Consistently entertaining and enlightening. -- Harvard Business Review
Gleefully 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
Author Bio
Matthew Stewart is the author of Nature's 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.