Regarding the comments by
Angus King, Pat Gantt, Dutch Driver, GConroy, and George J. Takacs
on the subject of Administratium:
It struck me that youall seemed to equate administrivia with business. I
suggest that Academia is far more polluted with Administratium than is
business and that government is in between. The only way that B schools,
and especially MBA schools, can help the situation is by re-engineering
themselves into the realm of relevancy along with in-built processes to
sustain relevancy.
Businesses are focused on the near term because their stockholders want it
that way and the majority of stockholders are employees, at least
somewhere. So don't blame the focus on short term profits.
Instead let's focus on the inability of managers to manage, let's consider
where managers come from, and let's build what it will take to make them
competent. I think this is a learning studio along the lines of Julliard,
not an Executive MBA session. Donald Schon's book, Educating the
Reflective Practitioner, has several good prescriptions along this line.
Jack Ring
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