From: David Fearon [mailto:
Fearon@mail.ccsu.edu]
I do appreciate how well and often Charles posts this list on matters
of staying current and well equipped to teach management. This posting
brings to mind a broad question. I infer that British professors
are attracted to dialoguing about business, not just management.
I find it odd that as a member of a business school, we hardly ever
talk about business; just keep chewing on out own pieces of the pie,
marketing, finance, accounting, MIS, management). Management can
be about a lot of things, but I wonder out loud here if business
management should be just about business?
We are the integrators, are we not? I mean "business" to be the life-force
of the organization,
signified by the pumping of cash through the systems and driven by the
collective desire to
have more and more cash to pump. Hold on, I know business is about leading
and
meeting the needs of customers, but is not the main role of those whom we
teach about managing to "bring it on" and keep it coming? (it being
revenue).
Just a Friday morning rant to clear my pipes for a difficult book review
that I need to have done today.
David
Central Connecticut State University
Fearon@mail.ccsu.edu