Are You The Smartest Business Thinker?
I was always wondering about the managers here in Russia… How self-confident and arrogant and overweening they can be… Browsing different business forums, I see their polemics, and there happen to be their attitude to some prominent people in the world of business. What could the reason be for a marketer to label Kotler or Trout as lame writers who don’t know a thing about marketing etc. Ok, you live in Russia, you have your specific realia here, I know that. Ok, you live in 2007, and those probably had their best years little earliers (you think so). But come on, have some respect to people who you MUST have learned a lot from. And if not, your business knowledge most probably sucks…
What do you think of Aristotle’s and Plato’s philosophy? Are they not good enough thinkers for you, just because they did not have the information you have learned at school? I try to respect thinkers for the thinking they do. To err is human, just as much as is to think. It sounds fair enough to me 