The feminine in management consulting
Sheila Marsh · 2008
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Through ‘live’ material from consulting practice and an historical review of advice-giving to pre-modern leaders, this book uncovers a distinctive ‘feminine’ discourse of management consulting that challenges current (masculine) images of management consulting.
First sentence: A notorious ‘amusing’ anecdote about management consultants concerns a dead horse and how many stupid, worthless, desperate and absurd approaches to tackling it (including of course flogging it) the consultant formulates, while ignoring the immutable fact that the horse is indeed already dead. This story, and others similar, which circulate unchallenged and are endlessly re-told (readers will undo
Book details
- Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780230207165
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