![]() ![]() I bought the book based on a recommendation by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and the thinking of Taleb is easily recognizable when Stewart argues that the world is too complex for most strategies, that most strategies can only be explained in hindsight (not forward) and that business studies are generally a waste of time. I’m pretty sure most people think twice before ordering a consultant after reading this funny (sometimes hilarious) and well-written book. In addition, Stewart, a philosopher by education and both a consultant and writer by trade, tells his own personal inside-story as a management consultant for almost two decades. In short, Stewart claims most of the management business is utter nonsense, but yet it has grown into a big business. The book takes you through the early start of the management business 100 years ago to the current multi-billion industry it is today. Matthew Stewart’s The Management Myth – Debunking Modern Business Philosophy “debunks” much of the advice and strategies given by external management consultants. But the “problem” with the business theory is that it’s solely built on case studies and has not been tested scientifically. I guess most readers of my website have read books by management gurus like Jim Collins and Tom Peters, and many more have probably studied Micheal Porter’s Competitive Strategy. ![]()
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