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Postmodern Management: The Emerging Partnership Between Employees and Stockholders

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This is a very strange book that combines a 19th century evolutionary behavioral view of societal evolution with a misreading of quantum theories of physics to build a blindly procapitalist vision of an e-future in which workers escape the irrationalities and troubles of our economy by being given stock options by their suddenly trustworthy employers. The author seems unaware of many developments in the behavioral, economic and social sciences during the last thirty years, and attempts overcome these shortcomings by declaring his "new" managerial strategies by declaring them to be "postmodern." It would be interesting to know what Wallace makes of the post-internet economic collapse that he believed would make us all happy, well paid laborers. The world he predicted does not exist and never will, and this book is a record of how so many Americans were tricked into believing their bosses as they were tricked to work for worthless stock notes.

I'm a graduate student in economics at Chicago and I picked this book for a critical bi-wekly ongoing 12-page critical book review assignment. My review was very critical of this book's odd reasoning and even stranger interpretations. When my review was returned I had a heart attack when I saw that I had received a "C" grade on my report & remarks from my professor indicated that I obviously misunderstood what the author of this book had written because my summary of the books take on Weber, Quantum Mechancics, Drucker and others was so off-the-mark that I had misunderstood what the author William Wallace had written.

I was crushed. I asked if I could redo the assignment, and my professor agreed that I could reexamine the arguments in this book. I set to this course right away, and I became increasingly troubled when I found that my rereading of this led me to the same conclusions that my professor had crushed me for. I took this book to my professor and she had a fit once she read sat down and read portions of it. Finally, she concluded that the book was so poorly reasoned that my report on its conents had indeed been accurate. She gave me an A, and flunked the book.

Beware those of you who venture into these pages, this book contains very unusual interpretations of economic thought and managerial techniques. It would be a nightmare to work under the "postmodern" managerial techniques set forth in this book, a nightmare for both workers and management.

This is a luminous book. Not since the Turner Diaries have I read such an innovative, positive depiction of what our would could become. Wallace has successfully pieced together the details of the complex economic managerial system that the Furher would have implemented had he emerged victorious from his defensive war. Wallace's brilliant vision of postmodernism is a pure vision of capitalism that boldly declares the power of markets to remove harmful, or inferior elements from society. Wallace rightfully despises the parasitic elements that have been allowed to survive under prevailing managerial systems, if left in charge he would exerminate these positions that have florished under socialisms affirmative action programs. Like we used to sing back in the late 1930s in Germany, "Reines management ist der erste Schriff in Richtun zum Herstellen der rassischen Reinheit." Professor Wallace's opening summary of world history and prehsitory is well informed and inline with the teachings of the Church of the Creator, and one can find the basics of how capitalism can cleanse us of those who do not deserve to (as Wallace puts it) "advance to the next level."

Don't judge this book until you have read it twice. Not a book to be resold!