It's refreshing to hear what you really think.
I was having an email exchange the other day with Helmut Smiley, Professor of Organisational Improvement at Belsen College of Technology. This guy is really well published in the area of on the job psychology. His new book "Workplace bullying: How to do it without getting caught" might soon sell a few copies.
Anyway, Helmut's following treatise on the value of applied business research really impressed me, so I thought I'd share it with you all:
"It is all horseshit. certainly in the business realm. I mean show me one piece of research in management or marketing in the last 50 years that has made a meaningful impact on the way business or society functions. It happens in the hard sciences all the time; a new drug, fabric or engine, but there is not the same kind of accountability in the social sciences."
Well thanks for all that Helmut.
When I shared this comment today with my office chum Malmot Chigley, he remarked that when you go to a medical research conference you see Doctors, when you go to an engineering research conference it's attended by engineers. But when you go to a business research conference it's held by third-rate academics who do fuc* all.
I was having an email exchange the other day with Helmut Smiley, Professor of Organisational Improvement at Belsen College of Technology. This guy is really well published in the area of on the job psychology. His new book "Workplace bullying: How to do it without getting caught" might soon sell a few copies.
Anyway, Helmut's following treatise on the value of applied business research really impressed me, so I thought I'd share it with you all:
"It is all horseshit. certainly in the business realm. I mean show me one piece of research in management or marketing in the last 50 years that has made a meaningful impact on the way business or society functions. It happens in the hard sciences all the time; a new drug, fabric or engine, but there is not the same kind of accountability in the social sciences."
Well thanks for all that Helmut.
When I shared this comment today with my office chum Malmot Chigley, he remarked that when you go to a medical research conference you see Doctors, when you go to an engineering research conference it's attended by engineers. But when you go to a business research conference it's held by third-rate academics who do fuc* all.
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