Tze Hsien Ian Tay
Every framework starts as a tool. Most end up as an alibi.Every management idea begins as a useful insight. Then the organization gets hold of it - the nuance stripped out, the thing branded, laminated, and turned into a rule nobody is allowed to question.The Framework Made Me Do It! isn’t the tired claim that management theory is rubbish. It’s about what we do with these ideas once they harden into doctrine, how a tool for thinking quietly becomes a shield to hide behind, and why 'we followed the model' is more often an alibi than a strategy. The uncomfortable part? The smarter you are, the better you are at it.From Taylor’s stopwatch to the algorithm, it traces a century-old pattern through the matrices, models, and leadership brands that fill the modern workplace and asks one question you can’t unhear: are you using the framework, or is it using you?
