Most of management theory is inane, writes Matthew Stewart, author, most recently, of The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World. According to him if you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead. It is not entirely coincidental that the rise in the glorification of Graduate Schools of Business roughly coincides with the decline in American business and finance. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-managent-myth/4883/1/
