Comments on: McNamara on Management http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/mcnamara-on-management/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eats Wombats http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/19/mcnamara-on-management/#comment-74866 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:43:08 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/?p=2060#comment-74866 There’s a good critique of McNamara in Henry Mintzberg’s Managers not MBAs, but not just of McNamara but the whole reductionist point-missing obsession with measurement — as part of a broader thesis about the damaging effects of an HBS education.

At least the numbers guys could claim to be empiricists. What excuse does George Bush have?

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