ETHICAL MANAGEMENT - EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT
TIME TO CHANGE PARADIGM !
INTRODUCTION
Why are we so obsessed with influencing others? Why should we think that business is war? Why is our idea of leadership so intimately associated with that of power? Why is efficiency confused with urgency? And why is the sense of urgency making us feel more useful in the first place? Why pretend that working together in a cooperative effort is more efficient (which is true) but yet at the same time, promote a socio-cultural environment which salutes individualism and ego-centrisme. Why is the distinction between "being the best" and "being the best that I can be" so consistently overlooked? Can't we learn from those who are better?
A radical change for the study of work organizations is being proposed. This time, the organization is explored from its natural point of view: the cooperation between mature intelligences. We will look at how the "whole" works in order to understand how we fit into the "whole". The focus will be placed on cooperation rather than on competition. In other words, we will seek to better understand how synergies make each one of us grow and mature, and how they lead us into letting go of the belief that we should all act like supermen and women. Intelligence will be the reference because intelligence is by far the main process on which work organizations depend. Accordingly, all intelligences -emotional, existential, social, cooperative, economical- will be linked together because none can be excluded. The result will be a fascinating change of paradigm in the understanding of work organizations along with, a powerful management method.
Expert 5ATM Model proposes an insightful and yet practical management model aimed at understanding and optimizing synergies of intelligences. Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine principles, a holistic medicine discipline issued from a sophisticated knowledge of systemic rules, it explores all functioning levels of work organizations from that very perspective. Expert 5ATM Model offers a degree of comprehension of social models (bonding, structure and functioning) unattained so far. The first reason for such a deep understanding of social phenomenon is the rightness of the Traditional Chinese Medicine organic principles. The second reason is the precision with which these principles have been applied to organizations. It constitutes an important intellectual breakthrough.
What is being proposed here is the path for the true managerial intelligence. First of all, the raison d'être of a work organization will be separated from its classical economical context. Effectively, neither profits nor internal competition, both quantitative criterion, can guarantee collective efficiency because, as we will see, such efficiency rests on cooperative processes only. Second of all three expressions of intelligence will be addressed: social (existential and emotional), managerial, and economical. Social and professional relationships will be apprehended in a very articulate manner so as to favor mature and meaningful exchanges. Undoubtedly, Expert 5ATM offers an exciting opportunity to change our vision of management. Its most outstanding feature is that, without a doubt, it demonstrates how ethical management is the most efficient way of leading women and men through collective effort.
This book is principally addressed to managers and to the members of their team. However, it presents such a new and powerful investigating tool for the study of complex social systems, that I hope that it will prove to be useful to researchers in the social field as well.
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