The
functional managerial role in modern business is weak by Nietzsche’s standard.
That is to say, a manager is of the vulgar rather than of noble strength. After
highlighting Nietzsche's project more generally, I discuss his notions of
strength and weakness. I then delineate Nietzsche’s attitudes toward wealth,
trade and modern industrial culture—the immediate context for his concept of
the modern business manager. I argue that Nietzsche views this context as decadent.
Within this framework, Nietzsche’s rendering of the primordial commercial
relationship can be taken as his genealogy of the modern business manager.
Finally, I describe the modern business manager as akin to the ascetic priest
in being a herd animal desperately seeking to dominate the herd and,
presumptuously, even the strong.
The full essay is at "A Nietzschean Critique of the Modern Manager."
The full essay is at "A Nietzschean Critique of the Modern Manager."
