{"id":695,"date":"2009-10-07T07:48:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-10-07T07:48:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:48:45","slug":"the-management-myth-reviewed-in-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/the-management-myth-reviewed-in-the-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Management Myth reviewed in the Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philipdelvesbroughton.com\/\">Philip Delves Broughton,<\/a> whose book on HBS <a href=\"http:\/\/shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/04\/taking-stock-of-lifes-options-while-at-business-school\/\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote about<\/a> last fall, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB20001424052970204313604574329183846704634-lMyQjAyMDA5MDAwNTEwNDUyWj.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed<\/a> Matthew Stewart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393065537?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thelitteinlit-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0393065537\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Management Myth<\/em><\/a> in the Wall Street Journal a couple months back. I&#8217;m currently enjoying Stewart&#8217;s skewering of business theory after having read his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/print\/200606\/stewart-business\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic article<\/a> that spawned the book a few months ago. His thesis\u2014that management theory is a false science\u2014should be studied by anyone who has ever thought of employing SWOT, Five Forces, the BCG matrix, or any other fallacious framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Delves Broughton, whose book on HBS I wrote about last fall, reviewed Matthew Stewart&#8217;s The Management Myth in the Wall Street Journal a couple months back. I&#8217;m currently enjoying Stewart&#8217;s skewering of business theory after having read his Atlantic article that spawned the book a few months ago. His thesis\u2014that management theory is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[104,56,101,102,105,100,106,103],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}