All the theories of “managerial” society descending from Burnham share a conceptual muddle
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But almost all of the full-time occupations of ruling elites since antiquity can be described as “management”
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The biz-school lemma suggests that those earlier managers were confidence men who contributed nothing, just overseers, modern managers are promethean engineers
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Well, there’s just no way to dice it up that will make that stick Look at what a Sumerian scribe was doing. Or a Vedic astronomer. Or Machiavelli, or his banker neighbors
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The combination of communication, decision-making, leadership, and emergency trigonometry is very stable
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Burnham should have known this; latter-day champions of the same theory tend to take a much dimmer view of manager-theocracy to begin with, so the flaw should be obvious
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