If you walk into any conference room in the world, it is likely you will hear people talking about “opening the kimono” in a “play for transparency” so they can “dig deep into Big Data.” You may walk ...

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In my book, "Car guys Vs. Bean Counters," I devote an entire chapter to the deliberate and largely useless intellectualizing of business, foisted on America by the nation's famous business schools.