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Just as a good musician has a feeling for rhythm and a sports person has a feeling for the game, so a good businessperson has a well-developed sense of business feel. How do we develop our business feel? How does an understanding of business feel enhance our business judgement, our ability to trust our intuition, think on our feet, make and execute decisions? These and other questions will be answered by examining the life experiences of CEO's who are recognised for excellence in their feel for the business. The business feel of, amongst others Jack Welch, Andrew Grove, and Ricardo Semler will be explored.
List of contents
In the Cracks of Conventions Philosophical Experiences Managers and Leaders: The Unnamed Philosophers Unmasking Management Theoreticians From a Science to a Philosophy of Management Leading Managers out of Plato's Cave Strange Bedfellows: Jack Welch and Martin Heidegger How Touchy Feely is Jack Welch? Welch's Outsiders Perspective from the Inside Turning Intuitions into Visions Leading out of Confusion: Grove's Crisis at Intel From Control to Reflection in Management Organisational Nationalism at Intel Philosophical Education in the Context of Management The Socratic Perplexity of a Leader: The Case of Mort Meyerson Ricardo Semler's Philosophical Experience Philosophical Narratives for Managers Bibliography
About the author
Steven Segal is Director of Business Feel Pty Ltd, a company that develops and runs course, coaches and conducts training sessions on business feel for corporate and other organizational clients. He also lectures in management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and the Sydney Graduate School of Management, Australia. He is recognized internationally as a pioneer in the field of philosophical practice and has published a number of books and journal articles.
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Just as a good musician has a feeling for rhythm and a sports person has a feeling for the game, so a good businessperson has a well-developed sense of business feel. How do we develop our business feel? How does an understanding of business feel enhance our business judgement, our ability to trust our intuition, think on our feet, make and execute decisions? These and other questions will be answered by examining the life experiences of CEO's who are recognised for excellence in their feel for the business. The business feel of, amongst others Jack Welch, Andrew Grove, and Ricardo Semler will be explored.
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'...a brilliant eye-opening book for [managers], especially philosophical practitioners, because it shows the great opportunity for Socratic philosophers to become organizational and management consultants 'to encourage managers to reflect on the assumptions that are implicit in their experiences.' Evidently, one of today's most urgent questions in management is not whether corporations have 'philosophies' but whether they have corporate philosophers.' - Reinhard Zaiser, Philosophical Practice
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'...a brilliant eye-opening book for [managers], especially philosophical practitioners, because it shows the great opportunity for Socratic philosophers to become organizational and management consultants 'to encourage managers to reflect on the assumptions that are implicit in their experiences.' Evidently, one of today's most urgent questions in management is not whether corporations have 'philosophies' but whether they have corporate philosophers.' - Reinhard Zaiser, Philosophical Practice
