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The New Ecology of Leadership: Business Mastery in a Chaotic World

A reflective management practitioner crafts an extraordinary integration of management thought and practice from an ecological sensemaking perspective

2012

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Toggling Between Two Worlds:

Making Sense of Organizational Change

May 1, 2024

May 1, 2024

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Words and Looks: Leadership Lessons from A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol, was first published on December 19, 1843. So it’s close enough to republish this article on…

Dec 16, 2020

Words and Looks: Leadership Lessons from A Christmas Carol

Dec 16, 2020

Making Sense of Management: Theory and Practice

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice there is.” Benjamin Brewster, The Yale Literary Magazine…

Jan 23

Making Sense of Management: Theory and Practice

Jan 23

For those paying attention it's been a gradual process:

Hans-Georg Moeller: Four Insults to Human Narcissism from The Radical Luhmann (page 28)

Sep 10, 2024

Excellent!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/toggling-between-two-worlds-making-sense-change-david-k-hurst-frsa-jpxtc/?trackingId=zzPMhrGa3w%2BYAqcNKQhT7g…

Aug 12, 2024

The Human-Centric model is no doubt desirable, but we have known that forever.

I wrote about it in HBR forty years ago, describing how we went through the process…

Jan 4, 2024

The trouble began with the mindless transfer of the idea of agile from software development to…

Dec 12, 2023

Provocative article!

Jul 17, 2023

Underpinning the call for 'clear messages' is often a dated (back to the Enlightenment!)

Jun 19, 2023

The best hope for the humanities lies in movements like sense-making in management.

Jun 13, 2023