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Reflective practice: management stripped bare

I don’t make predictions, and I never will.

Paul Gascoigne

In a nutshell

Business pundits think management academics overcomplicate the world. Academics think pundits oversimplify it. This leaves you, the practitioner, stuck in the middle, needing to get on with your job but also aware that there are limits to your abilities and knowledge. How do you make sense of it all?

In The Every Day MBA my aim has been to present an informed and selective overview of the content and thinking you would find at a business school and to suggest that applying those concepts also involves an evolution in your own thinking. You have been given practical prompts to apply in your management practice along ...

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