Crooked Timber (Free subscription) | 30/04/2008
Synopsis: yes. I promised this post in comments to Chris's on Blackburn's myths below, where I took my life in my hands and disagreed with John. I think that actually, there probably is “a general skill called management which works in any and all domains”, and, just to raise the tariff and secure gold medal [...]
Unqualified Offerings (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Or made to run things. Daniel Davies argues that there is indeed "a general skill called management." To his two defining characteristics I’d probably add an openness to learning. Decisiveness in a manager is a virtue, yes. Nobody wants to work for the guy who tells you to hurry up and do A today, then [...]
Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
| Peter Klein | First Matthew Stewart, now Simon Blackburn — philosophers writing about management without actually knowing anything about management. Muses Blackburn: People can be persuaded, and ordered, given incentives and penalties, suppressed and killed, but not managed. Human affairs can be administered, but administration is not management. One administers to people and their needs. One [...]...
nanopolitan (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Here's Crooked Timber 's Daniel Davies : I think that actually, there probably is “a general skill called management which works in any and all domains”, and, ... I’ll also defend the proposition that this skill is pretty closely related to what they teach on MBA courses. Here's the first part of the argument: ... the kernel of my argument for the existence of a general skill of management is that...
