American - Philosopher | January 2, 1963 -
We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.
Matthew Stewart
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In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.
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In business, experience is the big teacher.
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We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
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The conservative interpretation of American history says that wherever the word 'God' appears, it's obviously our God, it's obviously a Christian God; it's usually an evangelical God. The simplest point I'm making is: That is just absolutely not true.
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Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.
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I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.
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During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
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One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.
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At its best, management theory is part of the democratic promise of America. It aims to replace the despotism of the old bosses with the rule of scientific law. It offers economic power to all who have the talent and energy to attain it.
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It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'
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I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.
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