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The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus

A critique of management theory and the gurus who promote it. The authors, who spent two years travelling through Britain, the USA and the Far East, studying companies as they struggled to manage themselves, sort through the muddle of modern management theory and aim to explain it in plain English.

Subject
business
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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