"Modern management"

La siguiente cita del libro The Management Myth de Matthew Stewart (p.11)

“But the modern idea of management is right enough to be dangerously wrong and it has led us seriously astray. It has sent us on a mistaken quest to seek scientific answers to unscientific questions. It offers pretended technological solutions to what are, at bottom, moral and political problems. It conjures an illusion – easily exploited – about the nature and value of management expertise. It induces us to devote formative years to training in subjects that do not exist. It favors a naïve view of the sources of mismanagement, making it harder to check abuses of corporate power. Above all, it contributes to a misunderstanding about the sources of our prosperity, leading us to neglect the social, moral, and political infrastructure on which our well-being depends… The sixteenth-century English philosopher Francis Bacon defined an idol as a phantasm of the mind – sometimes founded in the limitations of our rational faculties, often furthered by the misuse of language an the sophistry of false teachers – that leads us to a pattern of misunderstanding of the world and sustain irrational practices. By that definition, the idea of management is an idol of our times. It is a fat word over a lot the thin questions marks. It is a edifice of grammatical errors, misperceptions, and superstitions that keeps in business much that should be put out of business.” :-):-):-)