Title: Ernst Mach's Antithesis
Product review: In her book "Management and the New Science", Margaret Wheatley attempts to take scientific principles and illustrate how they can benefit managers. Not an unworthy goal, but this book is about as scientific as "Saved by an Angel". Throughout the book Wheatley continually attributes human values and metaphysical meanings to physical phenomena, resulting in a book that reads like a weird hybrid of Scientific American and L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics". The fundamental failure of the book lies in the fact that Wheatley never uses any sort of scientific metodology to assess her hypothesis. She is able to offer cogent arguments at various points of the book, but arguments that sound good do not constitute viable scientific proof of her assertions. While this book may be unfit for any scientific discussion, it does deserve a bonus point for being largely free of typographical errors. Rating: 2.
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