Balanced propaganda
2018
Issue 2editorial
The Narrative Issue
The next step: thinking about stories and narratives in professional practice.
how stories work
Practical Tales
Emotions, context, causality and the future: the example of an institutional narrative.
how stories are made
The Shape of the Tale
Narrative templates for organizational authors, from Aristotle to semiotics.
how stories are used
The Project Manager's Tale
It's not all about the plan: practical guidelines for leading projects by narratives.
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2015
Issue 1Editorial
The Reflective Issue
A homage to professional reasoning, and to our perceptive readers.
Thinking Like a Professional
The Genius and the Hunter
The mechanics of creative thinking, from Neolithic Siberia to Sherlock Holmes and today's professionals.
Diagrams and Reasoning
The Uses of Doodles
How maps, semantic nets, data chart and visual models support reasoning and knowledge creation.
Dividing the Labor of Knowlege Creation
The Wheel of (Organizational) Life
What do managers, consultants and coaches think about when they think about thinking?
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2014
Issue 0Editorial
Propaganda and Conversations
A declaration of intents and an invitation.
Designing Management Controls
Funds Tranfer Pricing in Emerging Markets
An example of the relations between a system of imperfect rules and the organizational environment.
Project Management
Politics, Structure and Coordination
Organizing projects with structures that make for easier management and keep politics where they are useful.
Non-profits and Management Control Systems
Fit for the Mission
Managerial techniques without a profit motive.
Management Coaching
The Rationality of Investing in the Emotions
Organizational culture and individual relations create the conditions for the use of coaching.
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