The Complexity of Consultancy: Exploring Breakdowns Within Consultancy Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367544706 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 190 str.

Nicholas Sarra; Karina Solsø; Chris Mowles

Opis

This book looks at consultancy and complexity. The expert authors bring together their experiences to provide vibrant accounts of how to lead in everyday organizational situations using practical judgement. The book reframes the role of consultants and includes real-world narratives illustrating concrete dilemmas in the workplace.

Spis treści

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