13/ People don't realize this, but underneath the MBA jokes, modern management is actually an accumulated 70 year old praxis based on a set of unconscious first-principles-of-culture. All management thinking, good or bad, rests on key political-economy assumptions.
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14/ The latest faddish business book doesn't exist in isolation. It is part of what Walter Kiechel called a "literary industrial complex" knowledge stack going back to Drucker/Chandler in the 50s.
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15/ This stack is what MBA programs teach, and what big companies model in their very bones. Whether you learn it in texts or through osmosis at your first job, it's a "way of doing business" that's a deep cultural skill/competence.
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16/ Just visit a developing world business environment if you aren't convinced this "business normalcy field" exists. The absence will be palpable. You may think of it as crappy developing country culture or corruption, or unprofessionalism, but it's a missing normalcy field.
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17/ This business-normalcy-field is in fact the greatest economic asset that separates developed and developing/third-world economies. It's an operating system that carries 80% of the intelligence of running a thriving, wealthy economy.
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18/ When this field is absent because it never emerged, or once existed but has collapsed, business feels like a bunch of random, anarchic, inefficient, messy hack activity that is low-yield and produces little wealth, and very inefficiently.
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19/ My point is this: as and when this field finally starts to collapse, the business world will be at a fork in the road: collapse into developing country state, or reinvent management knowledge on a new assumptions stack.
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So true. Right after the election ppl started taking my courses to “defend truth” and “save democracy.” I’ve had to adapt to connect mundane things like note-taking to much bigger causes
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