The Fifth Column: On Becoming an Elephant

Robert E. D. Woolsey
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Robert E. D. Woolsey: Operations Research/Management Science Program, Mathematics Department, The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401

Interfaces, 1989, vol. 19, issue 3, 43-46

Abstract: A number of years ago I was teaching in the executive program of the second largest industrial group in a nameless westernized country. My part of the program was a combination of operations research and information systems well laced with what were perceived to be cynical comments on playing company politics for blood. The format was a series of case studies that are guaranteed to trap any unwary believer in quantitative rationality into blowing himself out of the water. I have, over a period of years, collected and used these cases in such programs around the world.

Keywords: organizational studies: leadership; professional: comments on (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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