The rise of critical realism in nineteenth-century Russia culminated in 1870 with the formation of the Wanderers, Russia's first independent artistic society. Through depictions of the harsh lives of the peasantry, the fate of political activists, Russian history, landscapes, and portraits of the nation's cultural elite, such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the society became synonymous with dissident sentiments. Yet its members were far from being purveyors of anti-Tsarist propaganda and their canvases reflect also a warm humanity and a fierce pride for such nationalistic themes as Russian myth...

Behind all the calm on the streets of London, United Kingdom, a growing problem still exists, and one in ten of us undoubtedly has been impacted by this problem, whether directly or indirectly. That problem is a five-letter word that still exists today: fraud. Using the figures that are currently available, the NFA, National Fraud Authority, estimates that the financial services industry lost 3.8 billion to fraud during 2008. In that same year, a young man was arrested and sentenced to prison, and after being reformed, he had a story to tell."

Most managers, change practitioners, consultancies, University programmes, and more, are talking about organisational life and change management from a rational, simplistic, mechanical, objective, and systems thinking perspective, where little room is paid to the micro details of human interaction and how people come to do what they do in their everyday accomplishments. It is argued that this "organisations as machines" view, with all its theories, models, prescriptions, techniques, and ways of talking about change management, has provided little help in order to successfully change...