Beyond Management Taking Charge at Work by Mark Addleson 2 docx

... conversation generates its own possibilities for action. Opportu- nities that weren’t there are created by the conversation, in the con- versation, with each conversation generating a unique combination ... brainstorming, and strategizing. The heart and structure of project work is networks of conversations. 34 Beyond Management Here is a paradox for me: we have all the pieces that m...

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... and what they can do. Then, the sense of what they’ll do—their work emerges, bit by bit, conversation by conversation. Usually, as this happens, a network grows along with their conversations. “I’ll ... Whether people are working in small 82 Beyond Management from originality of thought, expression, etc.; imaginative,” is exactly the right word for this work. 6 What is more creat...

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... also desirable? 125 110 Beyond Management requires a change in values, beliefs, or behavior.” Add “relationships” and you have a neat summary of why the work of organizing is seldom straightforward. 22 The work ... investigated the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that took place in September 20 01 found that security and intelligence organizations (of which the...

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... 66 6 .2 Diagram of an organizational network 68 6.3 The standard view of what happens in networks 70 6.4 Some knowledge workers at work 72 7.1 Comparing organizing with technical work 93 8.1 Work ... about work 120 Nursing practice: the work of caring 122 Bringing back care 123 10 In search of low-control organizing practices: community, care, cooperation, and commitment 125...

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... and practicing management you don’t know what you don’t know about work or organizing it. Going “inside” work Looking at work through a management lens today, what you see are the six Ds: documentation, data, ... beyond management, by finding new practices: practices for organizing knowledge -work that are good for knowledge -work. To get there we need to know more about kno...

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... 6 Knowledge -work in close-up What is knowledge -work? It may be one of the great paradoxes of work life that we spend so much time at work but have so little to say about the nature of work. In business books, ... about work or from what we pay atten- tion to. In Figure 5 .2, the text over the right brain is almost invisible, as a reminder that the work of organizing doesn’t cou...

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