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Conclusion: An Inmature Discipline (((Manager relax taking tour to the…
Conclusion: An Inmature Discipline
Manager relax taking tour to the best run companies
Michael Porter and Michael Jensen, MTs as respectale academics
Stephen Covey as an MTs therapist
Tom Peters as a preacher
Impressions of MT:
Enormous commercial success
Is a mishmash
MTs spend small fortunes in just one research and then exhibit it
MT has produced one great thinker: Peter Drucker
The case of the gurus
Complaints of MT:
An apology for an academic subject
Methodologically sloppy
Slave of fashion
Expensive just for translating common sense into grotesque jargon
There is a discipline
worth calling
MT:
General lessons can be extracted from what companies do and can be used to help others operate better.
MT is no entirely devoid of intellectual content
The results of MT labs are positive
Not all ideas work, but those that do give them an advantage
Most admired companies are pioneers in MT
Teenage Angst
Why so much sense and non-sense at the same time?
MT is a young discipline: Canonical texts and methodologis are still being developed
We should be gratefull its adolecense has not been stormier
MT audience demands
instant
solutions
MT, as discipline, is a magnet for charlatans
How to choose a witch doctor?
How to distinguish a real MTs?
If you suspect it is bunk, it surely is
Even the best MTs are hit and miss
Be selective
Don't believe in magic solutions
The cure can be worse than the desease
MT industry is devoid of self-criticism
Reviews os MT books are reflecting the frustration of readers
Contradictions and Anxieties
MT tent to make corporation more contradictory
Insensitivity to language: an idea comunicated poorly is hidding someting
Insensitivity to the wider effects of its ideas
More MTs are insensitive to the idea that organizations are social and political communities
MTs have predicted a future of chaos and uncertainty that only they understand, and that their work has made more likely
Downsizing, reegineering and delayering are prefered to let the org. die. But manager should remember that the firm exists on the tolerance of the host community
A good MTs is kind of a political theorist too
Up up and away
The discipline of MT os going from strength to strength
The only lasting source is good management
Manager are constantly embracing techniques that promise control of uncertainty