TY - BOOK AU - Mowles,Chris TI - Rethinking management: radical insights from the complexity sciences SN - 9781409429333 (hardback : alk. paper) U1 - 658 PY - 2011/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT PB - Gower KW - Management KW - Leadership KW - Strategic planning KW - Performance N1 - Why write this book? -- Consultancy as practical engagement in organisational politics -- Leaders, managers and consultants as researchers : using the self as an instrument of research -- Theories of leadership as magical-mythical thinking -- Charisma and passion-visioning the future -- Choosing organisational values, changing culture -- Choosing the future -- Performance management and targets-control, resistance, improvisation -- Reconsidering leadership and management drawing on radical insights from the complexity sciences ER -