One of The Australian Financial Review’s regular magazines, badly named as Boss, has a business books section that rarely yields anything worthwhile. But the latest issue throws up two intriguing possibilities:
- Matthew Stewart’s The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong is ‘written with aplomb’ - Stewart, apparently an ex-founding partner of a management consultancy, exposes management science as no science at all
- John R. Talbott, the apparently prescient seer at Goldman Sachs, slams the current financial system and today’s policies in The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street