num_pages: 343
description:  Dont go to business school. Study philosophy.Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy &amp; 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. Striking fear into the hearts of clients with his sharp analytical tools Stewart lived in hotel rooms &amp; got fat on expense account cuisineuntil finally he decided to turn the consultants merciless penetrating eye on the management industry itself. Alongside his devastating critique of management philosophy from Frederick Taylor to Tom Peters Stewart provides a bitingly funny account of his own days in a management consulting firm. Combining hands-on experience with the theoretical underpinnings of contemporary fads in efficiency improvement empowerment &amp; strategy Stewart knows his stuff &amp; thus he lays bare how little consultants have really done for the business of otherswhile making a killing for themselves.
language: English
title: The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company