Management gets a bad press. Entrepreneurs and leaders are enthusiastically celebrated, but managers are often ignored. This is fundamentally wrong. Management is the essential lubricant of any organisation — however large or small, whatever sector it might be in, wherever it is located.
The 50 Most Influential Management Gurus
good article
on Mar 17, 2012An important question for us to consider here is - why are the top thinkers from academia and not from the industry? I suspect part of the reason has to do with the fact that the top innovators are really people (as can be seen from their work) who are good at pattern-recognition and are good at expressing them well through books. Additionally, is it possible that being in industry numbs you to noticing these patterns?
on Dec 10, 2011