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    25 days ago

    Innovation management. It spent about 14 pages of the text book apologising for not being built on empiricism or even the discipline of economy.

    But even when there is data, the recommendations and conclusions are weakly supported in reality, with far reaching conclusions from theoretical or narrow scope studies.

    The courses on Strategy and Leadership were all listings of narrow focus phenomena in individual cases. Leadership styles can’t be meaningfully measured neither in orthogonality between eachother, nor the efficacy of style interventions.

    Choice of strategy has low predictive power of success, although can be broadly categorised in hindsight.

    All had data, but the usefulness is even less than the perceptual models in sociology or pedagogy. We can reason around the theory of organisations as organism and identify missing functions. You can’t effectively identify missing strategies outside of your list of examples.

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        24 days ago

        Branding, networking, and side perks.

        Also, there’s plenty to learn from non-academic education, vocational training for example trains a lot of skills and models without claiming to be academic.

        The theory portion of our financing course was quite similar to the theoretical part of my diving license, if scaled up to take 8 weeks rather than a weekend.