Posts tagged with "critical thinking"

This post marks a change in direction for the blog. Up until now I have been focusing on content around smart working and social business.

So what, though? What does it all mean in practice? What would you do with all this content, frameworks, tools and methods?

Well, I am late to the MOOC party. Or rather late to the acronym. What it implies, Massive Open Online Courses, is exactly the direction I have been planning for the Smart Work Company: an online business school.

I have a problem with the 'course' bit of MOOC. I propose an alternative: Massive Open Online Experiment.

"Our theories and ideas have done much to strengthen the management practices that we are now so loudly condeming" Sumatra Ghoshal, 2005 in Academy of Management Learning, vol 4, no 1.

This post is a reflection on Ghoshal's observations on "the pretence of knowledge" and the scientific approach to management. I have been quiet on the blog writing front for about three months. This was in part because I needed to get my head down and get outstanding tasks done. There was something else though: a gnawing feeling that I am hanging back from saying something that has been on my mind for a long time. So here it is.