{"id":3579,"date":"2011-04-10T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T21:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2011-04-10T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T21:02:50","slug":"the-management-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"The Management Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering through The Atlantic I came across an article I loved back when I first read it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/print\/2006\/06\/the-management-myth\/4883\/\">The Management Myth<\/a> by Matthew Stewart (June 2006) has a subtitle that says it all, &#8220;Most of Management Theory is Inane &#8230;&#8221; Stewart compares philosophy to business degrees and comes to the conclusion that philosophy should take over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The recognition that management theory is a sadly neglected  subdiscipline of philosophy began with an experience of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. As I  plowed through my shelfload of bad management books, I beheld a  discipline that consists mainly of unverifiable propositions and cryptic  anecdotes, is rarely if ever held accountable, and produces an  inordinate number of catastrophically bad writers. It was all too  familiar. There are, however, at least two crucial differences between  philosophers and their wayward cousins. The first and most important is  that philosophers are much better at knowing what they don\u2019t know. The  second is money. In a sense, management theory is what happens to  philosophers when you pay them too much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering through The Atlantic I came across an article I loved back when I first read it. The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart (June 2006) has a subtitle that says it all, &#8220;Most of Management Theory is Inane &#8230;&#8221; Stewart compares philosophy to business degrees and comes to the conclusion that philosophy should take over. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Management Myth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration","category-philosophy-of-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}