Who Wants to be an Evolutionary Theorist?

Abstract

H eedless of Madonna’s warning, PaulHirsch urged me to use this occasion as anopportunity to preach a bit. The Organi-zation and Management Theory (OMT) division gave me a great platform from which to put forward my sense of where we are, what we’ve accomplished, and where we have fallen short. Three decades ago, I was the first associate editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly, and Paul thought that I might have some ideas on where we might go over the next decade or so. In short, Paul asked me to give a “Leadership Ser-mon. ” I’m assuming that he also released me from the scholastic requirement that I must thoroughly docu-ment the intellectual history and empirical rigor of all my claims! I plead for a temporary suspension of dis-belief while I make my arguments. Having just published my book, Organizations