By Gabriele Lakomski, Lakomski
A serious exam of management theories previous and current, "Managing with no management" argues that management as ordinarily understood doesn't clarify organizational functioning. Bounded through empiricist assumptions and method, and together with a slender thought of brain as image processor, management theories are not able to aid their claims approximately leaders and their activities. Drawing on coherentist epistemology, connectionism, and the idea of self-organizing dynamic structures, a naturalistic account of organizational functioning and association layout is explored that incorporates leaders as non-privileged brokers within the cognitive cloth of organizational lifestyles.
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As Damasio (1996, p. ” His suggestion does not presume that the contents of our minds can be introspected (as assumed by Descartes) by a privileged central source/owner, or that subjectivity is the same as (self-)consciousness, or that the self has a specific location in the brain. Summarizing his discussion, he notes . . our experiences tend to have a consistent perspective, as if there were indeed an owner and knower for most, though not all, contents. I imagine this perspective to be rooted in a relatively stable, endlessly repeated biological state.