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Reflexivepractice
http://www.reflexivepractice.wordpress.com
Drawing on insights from the complexity sciences this blog discusses the way that people organise to achieve things together. The blog takes a particular interest in emergence and the practices of everyday life.
- Added on: Nov 5th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Chris Mowles
- Listed in: Society Science
- Tags: philosophy power sociology complexity emergence organisations
Recent Posts
Science envy
Many management theorists yearn to be scientific and as a consequence the domain is littered with tools which claim to have scientific validity and which go on to claim the ability to measure, predict and control many aspects of human and organisatio...
Tales of organisational abuse
The three-year Commission to Inquire into the Dublin Archdiocese investigated hundreds of incidents of abuse and showed the ways in which decades of exploitation of children had been covered over by the active participation of the legal authoriti...
Management as ideology
I recently served on an interview panel for a senior management post for a small not for profit. It was an interesting experience for encountering in condensed form how a sample of candidates, all with pretty good experience and qualifications for th...
Science, protest and meaning
In a further twist to Tolstoy’s famous quotation that ‘Science is meaningless because it gives us no answer to our question, the only question important to us: “what shall we do and how shall we live?’” the climate scien...
Targets and Inspection
Recent press stories about low standards in some NHS hospitals, where up to 12 hospitals have been judged inadequate by the semi-autonomous body Dr Foster’s, have once again raised questions about targets, inspection and standards. We have been...
Improvising in management
The American sociologist Howard Becker has just written a book called ‘Do you know…’ which is a study into how jazz musicians improvise. Becker is himself a jazz pianist. He was interested to know what happens when jazz musicians, w...
