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In this lively and entertaining book, Robin Wensley guides the reader through the basic analytical approaches to decision making required for more effective management practice.
Packed with diagrams, anecdotes and examples which bring the book to life, Effective Management in Practice: clearly presents a wide range of management tools, techniques and theoretical insights in just the right amount of depth for current and future managers; illustrates the need for a balanced approach, emphasizing the importance of the questioning process in clarifying the nature of action proposals and any underlying assumptions; eschews any approach which advocates one right way but at the same time encourages a greater appreciation of practical issues through analysis and theory
Students of management, academics and any practitioner interested in exploring a range of different approaches to management will enjoy and treasure this book.
Returning to Practical Wisdom: The Frameworks for Analysis
Returning to Practical Wisdom: The Frameworks for Analysis
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (attributed to Albert Einstein in Bell, 1951)
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. (Quoted in Life of Lord Kelvin (1910, 1976) by Silvanus Phillips Thompson)
When it comes to what the French call “the human sciences,” the quote from Einstein above is both right and wrong. Recall that the great initial insight that Einstein developed – that time was relative but the speed of light was constant – contradicted pretty much all of our own experience of the physical world; hence quite understandably Einstein's scepticism ...
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