Free to Obey : How the Nazis Invented Modern Management by Steven Rendall

What if the rules of modern management were written during the Third Reich?SS Commander Reinhard HAhn was one of Nazi Germany?_Ts most brilliant legal minds, an archetype of the fervid technocrats that built the Third Reich. Gone into hiding after 1945, he survived unscathed and re-emerged in the 1950s as the founder of a management school. His story wouldn?_Tt be too different from that of other prominent Nazis, if not for the fact that the great majority of Germany?_Ts post-war business leaders were educated at his school. Is this a coincidence? Or is there a link between the forms of organization of Nazism and the principles of corporate management?At the core of HAhn?_Ts vision was the concept of freedom, as freedom to obey orders from above?_"to carry out one?_Ts mission no matter the cost.
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