Beware of Management Fashionistas
Slow Leadership on management fads, interesting read, yet neither them nor I know how to counter this unnerving trend:
Have you noticed that management has become a fashion industry, like Hollywood, the media, politics, and marketing? No one has time today for dull, slow, and boring activities like looking for the truth, testing assumptions, or waiting to see how well anything works. The rush is on to grab at anything that seems to work and use it right away. It’s part and parcel of a suicidal trend towards the shortest of short-term thinking in the executive suite.
For a more academic treatment see e.g. Abrahamson, E. (1996): Management fashion, in: Academy of Management Review, 21. Jg., 1996, S.254–285
Ten years later, fads are as present as ever … now off to work, I am preparing a post on management tools and lists …
