Comments on: The Lazy Manager Theory

By: John Wilkins

John Wilkins — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:27:20 +0000

Give me time.

By: Peter Klein

Peter Klein — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:26:23 +0000

I had in mind academic department heads. :-)

By: John Wilkins

John Wilkins — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:24:33 +0000

Errr… I *was* department head. I had a budget of $2million/year and 12 staff. It worked best when I was doing very little management (or perhaps I did very little when it worked best. Hard to separate out cause from effect here).

By: Peter Klein

Peter Klein — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:18:06 +0000

John, thanks for the correction. And don’t get me started on the lazy-department-head theory!

By: John Wilkins

John Wilkins — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:14:30 +0000

Please send me the relevant section, so I can show my department head I am relevant outside philosophy (Peter: I did a PhD in history and philosophy of science, and I now have an Assoc. Professorship teaching philosophy).

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:03:33 +0000

Pure awesomeness.

Now I have to rewrite my Theory of the Firm syllabus.

By: John Wilkins

John Wilkins — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:13:25 +0000

My god. I had no idea there actually *was* a Lazy Manager Theory. I’ve been riffing off this stuff for decades now…