Management thinking

“Is management dead?” asks Gary Hamel (although he somewhat gives the game away by entitling his book “The Future of Management.”)  It’s an intriguing question and one which could obviously cut consultants to the quick: how can you be a management consultant if there’s no such thing as management?

It is 20 years since the philosopher Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history.  Buoyed by the end of the Cold War, he argued that the dominance of Western liberal democracy marked the end of man’s socio-cultural evolution.