We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
From Matthew Stewart
Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.
For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.
I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.
During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
I don't have an M.B.A. I have a doctoral degree in philosophy - nineteenth-century German philosophy, to be precise.
One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.
At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.
Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.
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