“The business schools could do a better job teaching face-to-face management, the actual work of organizing and helping along the efforts of others in the organization. The more quantitative disciplines have gotten more attention, often more research dollars. Areas like organizational science or, even mushier, leadership have had more trouble settling on what it's important to teach, and how. It's rather like strategy itself, which as I argue in the book, has had trouble through most of its history figuring out how to incorporate people, their motivation and ability, into its calculations.” PeopleImportantBookHelpingSchoolMotivationAbilityEffortAttentionTeachTroubleTeachingDisciplineManagementStrategyArguingSettlingOrganizational Author:Walter Kiechel
“People believe that management consultants are mostly useless parasites. Up until about 1980 it was consultants more than anyone else who came up with the critical concepts behind strategy. The history of strategy suggests there are lots of things consultants can do for a company that the company can't typically do for itself.” PeopleBelieveManagementStrategy Author:Walter Kiechel
