# Why Management Needs Philosophers

<https://hbr.org/2017/09/management-is-much-more-than-a-science>

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## What Jamie wrote

Management is about people. People are abstract and unpredictable. It seems obvious that you cannot design an overarching algorithm to drive productive teams. That isn't to say that data should be ignored or not collected, but it should influence not dominate management.

## Facts

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- [WT19: Weekly Thing for September 16, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/19/), Links 📌

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