How to Teach Management Differently

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'Too often management education is dominated by an unquestioned assumption of the dominance of market capitalism and its associated pathologies. Monika Kostera turns management education on its head, convincingly showing how management can and should be taught differently. Expounding the value of "de-management", Kostera lays out a values-based approach focussed on developing bold visions that account the vicissitudes of context, presence, meaning. A must-read for management educators who want to make a difference.' -- Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 'If you're interested in traditional management education, Kostera's book is for you. If critical management education is of your interest, this book will also resonate with you. However, it may be particularly compelling if you hold a management role at a business school and are open to discussing, with yourself and your team, the values, ethos, and purpose of business and management education. Through a quasi/self-ethnographic approach, Kostera highlights the lack of emphasis on fostering a (sic) "culture of cooperation" in business schools, which are often more focused on individualisation and less inclined to promote rich and meaningful organisational collaboration.' -- Hugo Gaggiotti, University of the West of England Bristol, UK 'Organizing, of whatever kind, involves tangling the world, human and non-human, embracing its joys and pains. Yet business schools reduce organization to management, to the cool sciences of control. In this beautiful book, Monika Kostera shows us how "management" education might be remade with poetry, trees and cracks that let the warm light in. Read this, and de-manage yourself.' -- Martin Parker, University of Bristol, UK 'How To Teach Management Differently challenges conventional approaches to management studies, opening up a world of possibilities for more critical and socially engaged perspectives. Through a blend of creativity and humor, the book draws from a diverse range of ideas and literature, making it both enlightening and delightful to read. Monika Kostera effectively combines experiences from various geographies and situations, many of which are deeply personal and embodied, in order to present real-life, current alternatives for a better world, embracing complexity rather than shying away from it. Through compelling stories, it humanizes business and management studies, transforming the way we think about and relate to these fields.' -- Joan Francisco Matamoros-Sanin, CIESAS South Pacific, Mexico 'It was intense to read, and very personal, questioning and challenging my very being and becoming as a management educator. The claims to be creative and independent, while researching and educating, were realised and acknowledged to be personal and political, at the same time. The personal was becoming political in the consciousness that this read evokes, about the positionality of the management educator, produced in the postmodern, capitalist educational organization. This reading was also a realisation and strengthening, that I am not alone, that I have a community that ensures that we strive for freedom for each other, for all, in the collective existence, together... A meaningful read for every manager and the management educator.' -- Rajeshwari Chennangodu, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 'This is an important book, urging us to rethink management - its knowledge, teaching and praxis - in ways that leave behind traditional, arid, neoliberal and utilitarian ways of understanding management. Instead, we are invited to rehome management into a space filled with values and humanity, where the "Other" is included and supported in its flourishing. As such, de-management is rooted in a relationality that is not simply focussed on rational goals, performance and metrics, but on people themselves. This book offers important lessons in managing differently, which are essential for individuals and organizations.' -- Ilaria Boncori, University of Essex, UK