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Speaking Management - How to Spot Language Traps and Resolve Contested Management Terms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Speaking Management - How to Spot Language Traps and Resolve Contested Management Terms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book identifies ten linguistic traps in our everyday language
usage and provides philosophical justification for a method of
determining internally consistent definitions of groups of related
terms that avoid all ten traps. Various examples and applications
of this method are given throughout. The book demonstrates how the
seemingly straightforward matter of our understandings of the
meaning of words can have major implications for the exercise of
power. This book illustrates how this insight originated from
management research into project governance that found lack of
agreement on the definition of that term, as well as on many other
important management terms. To resolve this, the impacts of
evolution, philosophy and linguistics upon our everyday language
usage were investigated. The research documented in this book found
that the human tool called language works well for describing
physical objects but has difficulty producing a common
understanding of the meaning of concepts - a problem not restricted
to the management field. That field is simply a microcosm that
exposes a much more widespread linguistic usage problem affecting
our personal, religious and political lives; one that existed at
the time of Plato and Aristotle and has laid hidden for millennia.
This book includes a lexicon of 70 commonly used but confused or
contested management terms, as well as a further 18 such project
management terms, all developed by applying its definitional
method. The terms include governance, power, ethics, leadership and
their associated groups of terms. The book explores how
disagreement can be resolved using these new clear definitions and
extends this into an analysis of who 'good' ethics are good for. It
also incorporates a section on "how to speak management and
actually know what you are talking about", written in the style of
an 'idiots guide' or 'guide for dummies'. This identifies common,
everyday circumstances in which lack of agreed definitions cause
avoidable confusion and provides the book's focus on conflict
dissolution rather than on conflict resolution.
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