Consultancy is a lucrative industry dependent on the production and use of tools and techniques which hold out the promise of success for the organisations it supports: transformation, or greater efficiency and effectiveness, perhaps even culture change. However, a critical and important question is whether these promises are fulfilled in everyday practice in organisations. Is it possible at all for consultants to predict and control the changes that their clients ask for? This volume reframes the role of consultants from detached observers wielding a stable body of knowledge useful in all contexts, to that of skilled participants in the conscious and unconscious processes of organisational life.

In this book, one of three in a series looking at complexity and management, the expert authors bring together their experiences to provide vibrant accounts of how to lead in everyday organisational situations using practical judgement. The book includes a brief historical introduction to complexity and leadership, real-world narratives illustrating concrete dilemmas in the workplace, and a concluding chapter that draws together the practical and theoretical implications.

With both theoretical grounding and practical insights from managers and consultants in leading firms, this is an ideal resource for executives and students on leadership development and talent management programmes, as well as those undertaking higher education courses in leadership and consulting.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2022

ISBN

9781000644128

Edition

Topic

Negocios y empresa

Subtopic

Consultoría

Cover
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface to the Complexity and Management series: The key ideas of complex responsive processes of relating and their recent development
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Moving beyond neutrality: recognising the moral agency of the consultant through reflexive inquiries into shame
2 Consulting: facilitation and shame: working together to avoid challenges to our sense of self in the recognition of others
3 What are consultants actually recognised for?
4 Actualising plurality: an Arendtian perspective on responding to powerlessness and loss of freedom
5 Collaboration as a politics of affect
6 Selling ourselves short: marketing the self strategically: towards success beyond recognition
Conclusion: summarizing reflections on the practice of consultancy
Index