Management Hooey

"The true value of conventional management wisdom is not that it's wise or dumb, but that it's conventional. It makes one of the hardest jobs in the world, managing an organization, a little easier. By following it, managers everywhere see a way to drag their sorry behinds through another quarter without getting fired. And isn't that, really, what it's all about?"

I suppose it depends if you are trying to change something, or just interested in staying employed. Aren't there any real "men" left in management?

[Please excuse the politically incorrect term - but seemed nicer than "people with balls"...e]