these books for managers...
September 21st 2007 03:55
When you go nowadays to book stores i'm sure that most of the times once you got in, there is a huge section just for "management books". I mean, books explaining how you can be a better leader, have more creativity, be better in your job and become the boss (at least of a little group of people).
I think this must sell a lot, because these ones tend to have nice covers, publicity around them, and plenty of people that think they will help them in their professional life.
These books are for "techniciens". Instead of learning how things work, these people are selling around some empirical rules that should help you in your job. But they do not let you get inside the root of things.
The best books for people to learn how to deal in life (including thus their professional life) are in another section. To be more specific, in the philosophy section. If you want to understand and learn how to be a good leader, try discovering what the concept of "pensée élargie" is.
Management schools should focus their studies in subjects deeper than just teaching pre-defined rules to their students. At least engineers have math classes to understand better the physics, and then technology. Management courses should teach philosophy, sociology, and them present some of these "rules".
Maybe that's why most of the times it is the engineer that gets the job of management. These MBAs are like techiniciens that work the day appling the rules they've learned in school. It would be a good thing to give these people Kant, Nietzsche and Foucault instead of books of monk and managers...
cheers.
I think this must sell a lot, because these ones tend to have nice covers, publicity around them, and plenty of people that think they will help them in their professional life.
These books are for "techniciens". Instead of learning how things work, these people are selling around some empirical rules that should help you in your job. But they do not let you get inside the root of things.
The best books for people to learn how to deal in life (including thus their professional life) are in another section. To be more specific, in the philosophy section. If you want to understand and learn how to be a good leader, try discovering what the concept of "pensée élargie" is.
Management schools should focus their studies in subjects deeper than just teaching pre-defined rules to their students. At least engineers have math classes to understand better the physics, and then technology. Management courses should teach philosophy, sociology, and them present some of these "rules".
Maybe that's why most of the times it is the engineer that gets the job of management. These MBAs are like techiniciens that work the day appling the rules they've learned in school. It would be a good thing to give these people Kant, Nietzsche and Foucault instead of books of monk and managers...
cheers.
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