Unmanaging : Opening up the Organization to Its Own Unspoken Knowledge

Within management thinking, behaviours have become repetitive, and organizational performance is stagnant or declining. We need to engage with each other as individuals. The author proposes new ways of harnessing people's storytelling instincts and capabilities to create a new medium of professional communication and collaboration. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-11 Welcome to My World....Pages 13-26 The View From the Top....Pages 27-60 Messy Lives....Pages 61-70 Front Matter....Pages 71-72 Work as an Immersive Practice....Pages 73-91 Feeling Forward, Responding in the Moment....Pages 92-109 The Movement of the Living Story....Pages 110-119 Together in the Past and Future of the Now....Pages 120-130 The Double Prison....Pages 131-142 Front Matter....Pages 143-144 Navigating Memory....Pages 145-187 Changing Conversations....Pages 188-195 Unmanaging Ourselves....Pages 196-221 Going on From Here....Pages 222-225 Back Matter....Pages 226-237

Within management thinking, behaviors have become repetitive, and organizational performance is stagnant or declining. We need to engage with each other as individuals. The author proposes new ways of harnessing people's storytelling instincts and capabilities to create a new medium of professional communication and collaboration.

"Management thinking and behaviors have become repetitive, and organizational performance is stagnant or declining. We need to engage with each other as individuals. The author proposes new ways of harnessing people's storytelling instincts and capabilities to create a new medium of professional communication and collaboration."--Jacket Within management thinking, behaviours have become repetitive, and organizational performance is stagnant or declining. We need to engage with each other as individuals. This book proposes ways of harnessing people's storytelling instincts and capabilities to create a medium of professional communication and collaboration.