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Rethinking Management - Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences (Paperback)
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Rethinking Management - Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences (Paperback)
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What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for
managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does
it mean to apply 'best practice', or to take up 'evidence-based
management' and what kind of thinking does this imply? In
Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues that many management
courses still largely assume a linear and predictable world, when
experience tells us that the opposite is the case. He questions
some of the more orthodox conceptual assumptions that underpin much
management education and instead, encourages leaders and managers
to take their everyday experience of working with others seriously.
People in organisations co-operate and compete to get things done,
and constrain and enable each other in relationships of power.
Because of this there are always unintended consequences of our
actions - uncertainty is inherent in the everyday. Chris Mowles
draws on the complexity sciences, the sciences of uncertainty
rather than certainty, and the social sciences to explore more
helpful ways to think and talk about our lived reality. He takes
concrete examples from contemporary organisations, to argue that
understanding the radical implications of uncertainty is central to
the task of leading. Rethinking Management explores narrative
alternatives to the ubiquitous grids and frameworks that are
routinely taught in business schools, and encourages management
professionals and educators to recognise the importance of
judgement, improvisation and the everyday politics of
organisational life.
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