Tag Archives: Martin Heidegger

Objectivity: The View from Everywhere

I have been working on revisions to my Drucker Challenge Essay so that a version of it can be published in Management Research Review later this year. The reviewers felt that I needed to deal with the implications for management … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, General | Tagged being, Cartesian Management, deliberate practice, Drucker, ecological rationality, embodied cognition, Hubert Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Mr. Spock, objectivity, phenomenology, Plato, stages of learning, Star Trek, West Churchman | 1 Comment

In Praise of Ecological Rationality: The Return of Practical Wisdom to Management

This is the title of the article of mine published last week by the European Financial Review. It begins like this: Just over fifty years ago in America a concerted attempt was made to professionalize the field of management and … Continue reading →

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