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.
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..
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.
But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies.
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.
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
