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Title: Making sense of what gurus?
Review: By its title and the accompanying description, one would suppose this would be an objective and critical look at management gurus through history, with emphasis on the current ones. Instead, we get one chapter each on two gurus and a scathing review on the current management craze (which in itself is now a fad). Unfortunately, the argument against the "fad" is based on incorrect assumptions. Those subjects take up the first 100 pages, and then the authors ramble off for 200+ pages into disparate subjects and try to establish their own theories. Although most of what they say is correct, these are not necessarily the burning issues or the best characterization of the ones they do discuss. In fact, this effort is no better than a lot of what they want to criticize. Not worth buying unless you are interested in reading everything in the field.
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