| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Judgment and Strategy; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Skepticism; Ruler; Strategy as Self Presentation; Designing Organizational Form; The World as Will and Representation; The Vulnerable Ordinary; Phronesis and Care; Overview; 2: Paris; The Iliad; Knowledge; 3: Space; Fact and Ordering; An Attempt to Exhaust a Space; Rules and Grids; 4: Vision; Hope; Authoring a Vision; The Unity of Strategic Vision; 5: Images; Plan Voisin; 6: Critique; The Aesthetic and Reflective; Critics; Bridging; 7: Spectating; The Celebration; 8: Unhomeliness |
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The Love Test9: Hamlet; The State of Exception; Unhomeliness; Indecision; 10: The Public; Das Urteil; Observing Publicly; The Polis; 11: Authority; Reprise: Self Presenting; Antigone; 12: The Judge; Poetry; Augury; Poetic Self Presenting; 13: Good Pastoral; Forming Judgment in Strategic Inquiry; The Pastoral and the Political; Arcadia; Self Presenting and Stasis; Index |
| Summary |
Holt argues strategy is the process by which an organization presents itself to itself and others. To bring this about exponents of strategic inquiry attempt t gather knowledge about the conditions in which any organization is being organized: emerging markets, restless geo-political environments, networks of technological ordering, populations with differing skill sets, and the like. The upshot of such inquiry is a succession of images by which an organization attains distinction as a unity, or 'self'. Using work from literature, art, and philosophy, Holt explores what it means to present such an organizational 'self'. In strategy practice, he identifies three related forms of presentation. First comes strategy as a project of representational knowledge. Here strategists generate accurate, timely, and complex information to build successive images of the organization and its place in the world. Though pervasive and persistent, these overtly technical images remain subject to the basic skeptical challenge that things could be otherwise. In response, come the second and third forms of self presentation: the creation of visionary images, or assertions of competitive brute will. Here too come problems. With vision comes the risk of collective thoughtlessness, and with brute will a one dimensional condition of aquisitive competition. Holt suggests judgment offers another way of responding to the skeptics' challenge. Tracing a narrative through the ideas of David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Adam Smith, William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt, Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, Harold Pinter, Virginia Woolf, Martha Nussbaum and others, Holt finds much might be gained from associating strategic inquiry with a form of critical or poetic spectating. It is, he argues, by having this un-homely sense of 'being besides' oneself that an organization can best present itself to itself and others |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 24, 2018) |
| Subject |
Strategy (Philosophy)
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Skepticism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
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Skepticism
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Strategy (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191651243 |
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0191651249 |
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9780191751158 |
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0191751154 |
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