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The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy Paperback - 2010

by Matthew Stewart

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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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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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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 who's who of the consulting world . . . this book will enlighten executives."-Publishers Weekly

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  • Title The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy
  • Author Matthew Stewart
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 354
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Publication date 2010-08
  • ISBN 9780393338522 / 0393338525
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 1 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.001

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