the management myth debunking modern business philosophy

I love how you say that management theorists lack depth, because they've been doing for only about a century what philosophers have been doing for millennia, which is, studying human behavior. Scientific management isn't a science, is it? It's a business. And I always thought the two biggest oxymorons were political science and scientific management. And you say, it's not a discipline, but an idea of one. And the book traces, like you say, the genealogy of the management literature, and the discipline, whatever you want to call it, you expose its flaws. And we're going to put both on the show notes folks, you've got to read both, you've got to read the book, and you've got to read The Atlantic article, because they really go well together. Your book, The Management Myth: Management Consulting Past, Present, and Largely Bogus, which came out in 2009, is based on an article you had written published in The Atlantic first, as we talked about, in June 2006. And then you probably learned to appreciate philosophy more once you started getting into the management literature? I went into business as a CPA, and now later in life, I wish I had the degree in philosophy instead you went the other way. There's going to be some problems to solve some things to think about that will have some impact somewhere so i think i think there was a you know, a good a good side to that accident, too. How does a guy who's got a doctorate in philosophy end up in management consulting? And I think German philosophy, 19th-century German philosophy, if I'm not mistaken. And then you went to Oxford, where you earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1988. Matthew, I don’t even want to take time reading your biography, other than to say that you graduated from Princeton University in 1985, with a concentration in political philosophy. Your 332 shows late as far as we're concerned, but that's okay.

Matthew, welcome to The Soul of Enterprise. He was, as you were saying to him, the most mentioned author on our show, and was mentioned in show number one.Īnd I'll talk to him about that. I'm really thrilled that Matthew has finally been able to join us. On today's show, folks, we're going to be talking about The Management Myth with the author that we've been trying to get since day one of our show, Matthew Stewart.

I'm Ron Baker, along with my good friend and VeraSage Institute colleague, Ed Kless. Welcome to The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Knowledge Economy, sponsored by Sage, transforming the way people think and work so their organizations can thrive.

The management myth debunking modern business philosophy