{"id":2614,"date":"2003-01-17T22:09:41","date_gmt":"2003-01-17T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/17\/so-thats-what-happened\/"},"modified":"2003-01-17T22:09:41","modified_gmt":"2003-01-17T16:39:41","slug":"so-thats-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/so-thats-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"So that&#8217;s what happened."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered what happened to the Management Book Industry. When I was doing my MBA there seemed to be a new book on a new fad every term. I haven&#8217;t heard of new books lately. I thought I was remiss in not keeping track of them.<br \/>It turns out that Management-Book writers have  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/business\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1538727\">run out<\/a> of successful ideas to construct the latest fad out of, and they are turning to historical figures like Alexander and Sun Tzu for inspiration. <br \/>I suppose the additional advantage is that with this approach there is little risk that you will choose an Enron-style company as an exemplar of your approach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered what happened to the Management Book Industry. When I was doing my MBA there seemed to be a new book on a new fad every term. I haven&#8217;t heard of new books lately. I thought I was remiss in not keeping track of them.It turns out that Management-Book writers have run out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}