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From: Poulson, Chris
Sent: Sun 18/02/2007 8:26 PM
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Subject: RE: management as an art
I'm all for the thrippeny bit (three pence to those of you who may not know the term!)
Chris
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From: Aesthetics, Creativity, and Organisations Research Network on behalf of David Weir
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Subject: Re: management as an art
Hi Chris;
You are absolutely correct. Too much obfuscation comes from using arcane scholastic terms that make sense only to the children of one false prophet or another. My grandmother used to say "never use a shilling word if a threepenny one will do."
Best
David
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Sent: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:11:27 +0100
From: Pierre Guillet de Monthoux <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: management as an art
> and if progress in thought and action takes a bit of effort....
> p
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> From: "Poulson, Chris" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: management as an art
>
>
> You know what strikes me about this thread? The use of arcane ( me too!)
> terminology that scholars use to exclude the polity (oops. there I go
> again). Is it possible for those who think the
> "aesthetic" is that they think/feel is beautiful, appealing, engaging, to
> say so in words that don't lay a boundary around us?
>
> If managementr is an art then let's say so in terms that the "lay" manager
> can understand. And for those of us as well who earned our "qualifications"
> in elite institutions, if we can't say it in plain language then do we
> understand it?
>
> Chris
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> (locked into a US address that I seem powerles to change!)
>
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