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1. Introduction
2. Knowledge work
3. Peter Drucker
4. Workers' individuality
5. Unwarranted trust can cloak catastrophe
6. Talk outline
7. What's the problem with knowledge?
8. The subject of knowledge
9. Abstract nouns
10. The effects of what is imagined
11. Guided imagination
12. Shock and awe' invasion
13. Abstract nouns are tools
14. Objectivity
15. Scientific and knowledge management
16. Frederick Winslow Taylor
17. Scientific management according to Taylor
18. Is scientific management, scientific?
19. Tayloristic telling and its 'McDonaldization'
20. Knowledge management
21. Ikujiro Nonaka
22. Expressing the inexpressible
23. Switching back to the same track
24. Managing flow
25. Machiavellian means
26. The source of moral authority
27. The guard of the guardians?
28. Knowing and Doing
29. Sharing knowledge
30. The need of knowledge to operate tools
31. Distinguishing differences
32. Linguistic tools
33. Tools and their skilful use
34. Michael Polanyi
35. Tacit knowing
36. Strictly explicit knowledge
37. Knowing more than we can tell
38. Personal knowledge is not subjective
39. Helping knowledge workers
40. Mystical and rational knowing
41. Ernst von Glasersfeld's radical constructivism
42. Intersubjective communication
43. We cannot 'not communicate'
44. Trusting knowledge workers
45. Possible actions
46. Face-to-face communication
47. Japan's 'company as family' Kaisha
48. Tools and brains that use tools
49. Tacit-explicit knowledge-conversion

Topics Covered

• Peter Drucker
• Knowledge workers
• Abstract nouns
• Transitive verbs
• War on Terror
• Frederick Winslow Taylor
• Scientific Management
• Reductionism
• Ikujiro Nonaka
• Knowledge Management
• Michael Polanyi
• Truth
• God
• Tacit knowledge
• Explicit knowledge
• Paul Watzlawick
• Communication
• Intersubjective
• Japanese management
• Ernst von Glasersfeld
• Radical constructivism
• Trust
• Practice
• Doing
• Moral responsibility

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Series:

• Managing Organizations

Categories:

• Management, Leadership & Organisation

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Publication History

• Published on July 12, 2011