QUOTATION 84
EILEEN C. SHAPIRO ON THE NEED TO AVOID MANAGEMENT FADS
Use this to remind you that ready-made solutions to your problems seldom work.
Eileen C. Shapiro is an American business consultant and author of Fad Surfing in the Boardroom. Shapiro is concerned with the growing trend in business to look outside the organisation for ready-made answers to its problems, as she has said:
Thinking must be the hardest job in the World. What people want to do is outsource it to a mantra or methodology like re-engineering.
Eileen C. Shapiro
In the 1980s, management became sexy as managers looked around for instant answers to age-old problems. The result has been a growing trend for managers to look outside their organisations for answers ...
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