The Management Myth Quotes

“The simplest answer is that scientific management fulfilled too many hopes and prayers to be ignored merely on account of its logical and factual deficiencies.”
― Matthew Stewart, The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong

“Small clients, by contrast, are intellectually challenging, enjoyable to work for, and miserably unprofitable.”
― Matthew Stewart, The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong

“The Soviet five-year planning process—surely the ultimate management challenge—took its inspiration directly from the work of one of Taylor’s most successful disciples, Henry L. Gantt.”
― Matthew Stewart, The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong