"""Business school should stick to teaching the mechanics of running a successful business as much as possible, and leave the psychology out of it."""
This is an interesting thought that I don't agree with. Management is simply the art and science of achieving results through people. If you broke management down into its major components, I believe that you would find that management is mostly rooted in psychology with a sliver of economics. If you leave the psychology out of it, there isn't much left.
Agreed, if you want to know how things really work one of the best articles I've ever read on the subject is by Venkat from ribbonfarm.com.
Read the Gervais Principle it's long but well worth it, lots of fresh thinking, and if you watch the office you'll see it in a whole new light.
I'll read them all over the next couple of hours. (I am sick in bed anyhow :)) Readings that I recommend are "The Great Jackass Fallacy" (I got my copy <$10 on Amazon) and "Drive" by Daniel Pink. There's also a Youtube/TED video that sums up "Drive" very well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
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"""Business school should stick to teaching the mechanics of running a successful business as much as possible, and leave the psychology out of it."""
This is an interesting thought that I don't agree with. Management is simply the art and science of achieving results through people. If you broke management down into its major components, I believe that you would find that management is mostly rooted in psychology with a sliver of economics. If you leave the psychology out of it, there isn't much left.
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Agreed, if you want to know how things really work one of the best articles I've ever read on the subject is by Venkat from ribbonfarm.com. Read the Gervais Principle it's long but well worth it, lots of fresh thinking, and if you watch the office you'll see it in a whole new light.
Part 1 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Part 2 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-i...
Part 3 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/04/14/the-gervais-principle-i...
Part 4 http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/14/the-gervais-principle-i...
I'll read them all over the next couple of hours. (I am sick in bed anyhow :)) Readings that I recommend are "The Great Jackass Fallacy" (I got my copy <$10 on Amazon) and "Drive" by Daniel Pink. There's also a Youtube/TED video that sums up "Drive" very well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
I loved this series so much. It is a nice companion to this guide on creating a sick system: http://issendai.livejournal.com/572510.html