Rethinking management radical insights from the complexity sciences

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why write this book? -- Consultancy as practical engagement in organisational politics -- Leaders, managers and consultants as researchers : using the self as an instrument of research -- Theories of leadership as magical-mythical thinking -- Charisma and passion-visioning the future -- Choosing organisational values, changing culture -- Choosing the future -- Performance management and targets-control, resistance, improvisation -- Reconsidering leadership and management drawing on radical insights from the complexity sciences.