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False Prophets

The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today

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An edition of False Prophets (2003)

False Prophets

The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today

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"In this critical history of American management, business historian James Hoopes offers modern managers a more realistic perspective. He reminds us that the corporations' ability to create wealth depends on managerial authority, so top-down power and its potential abuse are here to stay in corporate America." "The origins of today's misguided management practices are rooted in the influential theories of the early twentieth century gurus, who aimed to temper management's authoritarian power with democratic principles. False Prophets vividly tells the story of these colorful and flawed characters in the context of the ever-changing American political and cultural climate. It introduces us to: Frederick W. Taylor, the first management guru and the father of scientific management who ruthlessly sped up workers by timing their every motion; Mary Parker Follett, the forgotten pioneer whose ideas on "followship" remain vitally useful in corporate life; Elton Mayo, the Australian immigrant whose intellectual chicanery on the subject of human relations put the Harvard Business School on the map; W. Edwards Deming, who brought quality management to America via a detour through Japan; and Peter Drucker, who left Germany in protest of Hitler's tyranny and tried bravely but unsuccessfully to make power morally legitimate in American corporations." "This penetrating and fascinating book critically examines the gurus' ideas and traces their evolution to modern business applications. Hoopes challenges the popular movements that followed as a result and sharply criticizes today's gurus for continuing to perpetuate bad management in the name of democratic values. In the process, he shows executives and managers how to recognize fad from fact and gives them new guidelines for using authority effectively and responsibly."--Jacket.

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336

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False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today
April 15, 2003, Perseus Publishing, Perseus
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First Sentence

"To call management "un-American" seems a contradiction in terms."

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Library of Congress
HD70.U5 H65 2003, HD38.2

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
9.1 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
Weight
1.5 pounds

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Open Library
OL7899636M
Internet Archive
falseprophetsgur00hoop
ISBN 10
0738207985
ISBN 13
9780738207988
LCCN
2003101363
OCLC/WorldCat
52042719
Library Thing
1148152
Goodreads
100101

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"To call management "un-American" seems a contradiction in terms."

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