"Theodore Taptiklis is a former McKinsey & Company consultant who,over the course of a 40 year career in business and organizations, undertooka wide variety of roles, including board member, senior executive,strategist and change manager, business development manager, andworked also in a variety of line-management positions as both an employeeand as a professional advisor. He characterizes his professional lifeduring that time as a progression from, not only a position of arrogant certaintyto one of increasing ignorance, but also as one from realizing theall-consuming pervasiveness and insidiousness of traditional managementdoctrine (managerialism) to the possibility of more authentic and liberatingways of experiencing organizational life. The starting point for thisprocess of ‘unmanaging’ ourselves, he suggests, is what we can noticeeach moment in our experience of the activities occurring between us inour everyday lives – a move from understanding our own practices as outsideobservers of them to engaged participants within them." (author's abstract)
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