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Managing as a performing art : new ideas for a world of chaotic change /

Vaill, Peter B.

Managing as a performing art : new ideas for a world of chaotic change / Peter B. Vaill. - First edition - xxi, 236 pages : port ; 24 cm. - The Jossey-Bass management series .

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 225-230.

Permanent white water --
The theory of managing in the managerial competency movement --
Winning is only the thing you think winning is --
The peak performance cult --
The grand paradox of management --
Reflection and the technoholic --
Satchmo's paradox --
Managing as a performing art --
It's all people --
The end of culture and the dialexic society --
What shpuld the top team be talking about? --
Taoist management : "composedly they went and came" --
Management as snake handling --
The requisites of visionary leadership.

Presents a collection of essays on management and leadership that propose radical new ways of thinking about what managers do and what organizations are.

ISBN: 1555421407 (alk. paper) 1555423698 (pbk)

LCCN: 88032842

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Management.

LC Class. No.: HD38 / .V23 1989

Dewey Class. No.: 658.4 / V.P.M