in Philosophy from Oxford!-he interviewed on a lark for a consultant position, urged on by a friend with about as much business experience as Stewart who'd struck gold with a firm with a top-tier firm. Armed with no business experience or even a record of academic business classes-but a Ph.D. Stewart's personal story exemplifies the ludicrousness of the consultant trade in a nutshell. Whether the problem is a soul in search of salvation, a relationship on the rocks, or a superpower in trouble, according to the received wisdom the answer is to turn it into a private corporation and then manage it like a CEO. When Jesus is compared with a CEO, it is Jesus who is thought to gain by the comparison.
University leaders, philanthropists, hospital administrators, and politicians promise to manage their fiefdoms like CEOs manage their companies. This darkly funny, brutally detailed look at the management consultant class manages to unveil nonsense and presumptions of everyone involved in corporate life in America, from current gurus like Tom Peters ( In Search of Excellence) to modern-day Fortune 500 company heads to the worshipped founders of business schools and management theory.Īlong with the money has come a whole lot of admiration for the great leaders of the corporate world. Combining hands-on experience with the theoretical underpinnings of contemporary fads in efficiency improvement, empowerment & strategy, Stewart knows his stuff, & thus he lays bare how little consultants have really done for the business of others-while making a killing for themselves.The answer to this question, posed by a professor of author Matthew Stewart, is basically the entire volume of The Management Myth, 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. Striking fear into the hearts of clients with his sharp analytical tools, Stewart lived in hotel rooms & got fat on expense account cuisine-until, finally, he decided to turn the consultant’s merciless, penetrating eye on the management industry itself. But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies. Study philosophy.įresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy & no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant.
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