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If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give

If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.

James G. March
Giving, Advice, Answers
James G. March (2008). “Explorations in Organizations”, p.13, Stanford University Press

They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.

James G. March
People, Made, Preference
"How Decisions Happen in Organizations". Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 6, 1991.

No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

James G. March
Jobs, Believe, Organization
James G. March (2008). “Explorations in Organizations”, p.13, Stanford University Press

I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

James G. March
Relevant
"Ideas as Art". Interview with Diane Coutu, hbr.org. October 2006.

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