blog de Niels Pflaeging

We´re online again!

It took a little longer than we had thought - but now this portal has a new, and more spacious home on a different server, and we will be able to administer the site and betacodex.org emails more easily. Thanks, Gebhard, for having hosted the portal on your server up to now!

Approaching 100 years: The damaging pseudo-science of "Management"

It has been almost 100 years now, since "Management" was instituted, formally, as a "science". The birth date is marked by the publication of Frederick W. Taylor´s landmark book "The Principles of Scientific Management", released back in 1911.

Academic paper on "The Evolution of a Management Accounting Idea: The Case of Beyond Budgeting"

Sebastian Becker of WHU Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management and Martin Messner of HEC Paris have very recently authored an academic paper on the history and evolution of the Beyond Budgeting model. In my views, it is the first such academic analysis that can be considered well-researched, smartly written and relevant.

Great news for everyone speaking ITALIAN... (and those with a knack for Italy)

Last week, I received the draft layouts for the Italian edition of "Leading with Flexible Targets", from ETAS, the publisher. The book will be published in March or April, and title in Italian will be: "Leadership e obiettivi flessibili. Beyond budgeting: come rivoluzionare il sistema delle performance". Sounds like music to me...

New addition to the BetaCodex library: "Management Rewired" by Charles S. Jacobs

I am currently reading the book "Management Rewired. Why Feedback Doesn´t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science" by Charles S. Jacobs. It´s a pretty good book on the rationale for changing organizations and also about the difficulties and success strategies for change.

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