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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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Things Fall Apart
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Front Matter
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Linking Voices, Making Sense, Joining Lives
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Back Matter
Reviews
'This is a very stimulating book it challenges many of the current tenets of management thinking. By highlighting the interdependence that exists between us all, it opens up new ways of making sense of the world and new ways of behaving. Recommended as a thought provoking read!' - Vivienne Cox, Executive Vice President, BP
'Taptiklis is raising fundamental issues about how present day and future management should be conducted. There is a lot to think about.' - Business Executive
About the author
THEODORE TAPTIKLIS is a former McKinsey consultant and veteran organizational practitioner who has operated in many roles including board member, senior executive, strategist and change manager, professional development and business development manager and also in a variety of line management positions, working both as employee and as professional adviser. These roles extend to twenty-five organizations from manufacturing to financial services to transportation, utility management, healthcare and social services over a forty-year career. Most of this organizational experience has been with leaders in their industry sectors.
For the past ten years Taptiklis has operated in a private capacity, exploring and testing the ideas discussed in this book by working with members of professional communities. The discoveries described here have led to working associations with a cadre of organizational practitioners, researchers and academics in New Zealand, the US and the UK.
For the past ten years Taptiklis has operated in a private capacity, exploring and testing the ideas discussed in this book by working with members of professional communities. The discoveries described here have led to working associations with a cadre of organizational practitioners, researchers and academics in New Zealand, the US and the UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Unmanaging
Book Subtitle: Opening up the Organization to its Own Unspoken Knowledge
Authors: Theodore Taptiklis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230589469
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57352-9Published: 04 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36470-1Published: 04 December 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58946-9Published: 04 December 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 237
Topics: Knowledge Management, Management, Organization, Human Resource Management, International Business