Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong
by Matthew Stewart
Recommended by David Heinemeier Hansson and Heinemeier Hansson
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Business, and Nonfiction.
Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant. But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies.In narrating his own illfated (and often hilarious) odyssey at a toptier firm, Stewart turns the consultants merc...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Business, and Nonfiction.
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David Heinemeier Hansson
“This reminded me that I needed to recommend the fantastic book The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart. In it, you get the bullshit history of Scientific Management, along with an exposé on just the kind of fraud that its popularizer, F. Winslow Taylor.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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