Böcker av John Pick

An account of the arts in Britain, this work suggests that even after 50 years of state planning of Britain's "leisure industries" the country is nevertheless approaching the millennium in a state of cultural confusion.

For more than thirty years the solution to all Britain''s problems has been better management. As a result management schools dominate higher education and managers are at work everywhere developing ''strategiesΓÇÖ and ΓÇÿsystemsΓÇÖ and quantifying ΓÇÿoutcomesΓÇÖ. There are now more managers on the rail network than train drivers, yet the benefits of modern management of railways, schools, hospitals and universities are elusive. This is because ΓÇÿmanagementΓÇÖ does not existΓÇöthe academic study of ΓÇÿmanagement scienceΓÇÖ and the assumption that there are universal management skills are bogus. This book shows how modern management practices have all but destroyed politics, education, culture and religionΓÇömodern management is the cause of our national malaise.