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January 30, 2013

Why can't we get things done?

I loved this old post about Jeffrey Peffer's work, from his book the Knowing-Doing Gap. Here's a snippet:

The truth is that business school is all about talking, not doing. And what's one of the top jobs that B-school students take when they graduate? Management consulting! I've always found the job market to be perplexing for this reason: You can be a plant manager -- actually have what it takes to run a plant -- and make $80,000 to $100,000 a year. Or you can talk about plant management and make twice that. Why do people get paid more for talking about things than they do for actually doing them? The message from the job market is that it's more important and more valuable to be clever than it is to have the ability to make something happen.

Posted by Johnnie Moore at 12:21 in Facilitation
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Chris Corrigan says


I've worked with many business school professors over the years and the one thing they have in common is that most of them consult on the side. If you go to business school, you will learn business theory from people who accentuate their living by consulting to others on it.

It is a good place to go if you want to become clever and get paid well for doing so, because that is what your teachers are doing.

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