The falseness of a judgment is for us not necessarily an objection to a judgment…. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species-preserving, perhaps even species-cultivating.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Prejudices of Philosophers
Never look for your work in one place, then, and your progress in another.
—Epictetus, Discourses
A Chapter of Warning and Whining*†‡§
Weber assumed that organizing scientifically meant taking a legal-rational approach, with well-thought-out, impersonal rules and specialized, hierarchical roles. But today’s management books advise leaders to control their organizations, at least in part, ...
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