I'd say "advanced management theory" may be dying, but I don't even see basic 101 management theory being acknowledged in many organization. Things like "don't have one person report to two or more people" are violated all the time and result in predictable chaos and problems.
I'm reminded of the story of garbagemen strike that brought New York City to their knees, while the Irish Banking Crisis caused only a blip because people turned to alternative forms of currency. Real managers provide real value solving real problems, and are well liked by their employees. Unfortunately most management nowadays is awful, and needs to be pruned.
<sarcasm>As an MBA who discussed (but didn't have time to read) a case study on programming, I know it's not possible to expect you to do complete a task in less time than it will take. After all, maybe you've heard the expression "nine women can't make a baby in one month". I'm not an idiot.
Hoever, my research has revealed that one woman can develop 1-to-N babies in a single node. And one man can help instantiate 1-to-N babies in multiple nodes. This is why I'm a fan of diversity hiring. As you can see, I have a strong understanding of message passing, concurrency, parallelism, the actor model, and multiple inheritance.
Now, given that we've established that I understand what you do, allow me, and all of your other bosses, give you an immutable set of instructions for you to process in that finite state machine you call a job.
Now that we're on the same page, can you show me how to use BitTorrent? I want to download the last season of Game of Thrones. My 401K includes an S&P 500 index fund, which owns shares of Time Warner, which owns HBO. So it's like I already own that content. Also, how do I erase my browser history? I accidentally visited a website with pop up ads, and my browser is filled with porn. Don't worry about the downloads those ads were triggered though, as I can delete those files myself.</sarcasm>
Thanks for posting that. I did indeed miss your point. I think it's because the Irish Banking Crisis is generally the designation for the events of 2008+...while what happened in the 1970s is generally referred to, in my experience, as the Irish Banking Strike(s).
Funnily enough I know Antoin Murphy quite well (the economist quoted whose work the article uses as a central reference point). I don't think he'd object to me saying that he was sometimes known in his own circles as Dr Doom.
I wasn't alive during the banking strike, but my father was very active in business then. His observations on it are three fold:
1. Business in general moved quite slowly at the time. So although several months seems an amazing length of time without banking, it didn't seem that extreme at the time.
2. Ultimately the whole thing rested on the knowledge that the music would stop and everything would get settled (for good or ill) soon enough.
3. Cheque culture in Ireland (even up to today) is extremely lax compared to the US. Many people make a habit of bouncing cheques, post-dating cheques, cashing third party cheques, using unsigned cheques as a sort of rough escrow and so on...Writing a bad cheque is bad manners but it won't land you in jail. So we were primed to view cheques as a flexible currency.
I took an introductory management class back in the 1990's at a local technical institute. The teacher worked full-time and taught the course on the side. One of the most valuable courses I ever took.
I don't have specific recommendations, but because managers are everywhere. I'd just ask around to people you know and see if they like their manager. You'll usually find one or two people who are liked by a large number of people. Then I'd save up about $5 and invite that person for coffee and ask them their story on how they got into management. If they do have a book to recommend, go with their recommendation.
The reason for recommending a relationship over a book is because management is really all about people. Some management styles will work in some industries, but be completely useless in others. Sometimes a management style is good for some people and not others.
If you really have no idea where to start, I'd recommend Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends and Influence People". Sorry that it's not hip, current, or trendy but people have pretty much been version 1.0 for many thousands of years now. Besides, it was first published in 1936 and is still being published. If you're cheap, just read the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...
Seconding the Manager Tools Podcast. There's also Manager Tools Basics, which is a highlight reel of sorts from the main podcast. Their approach can be a bit simplistic at times, but is immensely valuable.
I'm reminded of the story of garbagemen strike that brought New York City to their knees, while the Irish Banking Crisis caused only a blip because people turned to alternative forms of currency. Real managers provide real value solving real problems, and are well liked by their employees. Unfortunately most management nowadays is awful, and needs to be pruned.