Personal Mastery in Management Education

Traditional approaches to management education are deeply rooted in a mechanistic view of organizations. They nurture the illusion of control and predictability by treating management in a highly detached way, assuming naive causality and subject-object separation. In these traditions, the human context is considered of minor importance to managerial effectiveness. Daily practice of management, however, shows a different picture. Acting in the social domain of organizations requires a level of personal mastery and wisdom in dealing with complexities that mechanistic approaches to management education ignore.