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Diagnosing the ‘Organizational Unconscious’

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Normally, we manage organizations by understanding them through the eyes of proactive people or, as management would say, desirable people. We dislike and avoid looking at organizations through undesirable people’. However, such a classification is artificial and exposes the bias of the leadership. The reality of an organization must be understood in its totality. We must have an accurate and inter-subjective picture of the ‘whole’ and not the ‘part’.

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Singh, N.K. (2012). Diagnosing the ‘Organizational Unconscious’. In: Mantras for Managers. Management for Professionals. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0469-5_7

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