Why managers?

The author, a management practitioner and researcher, offers current and future managers :

• an original look at the managerial profession and management;
• answers to the questions of managers in search of meaning;
• a complement to management discourse for a different kind of reflection;
• a learning tool for thinking differently about management issues;
• an avant-garde approach, combining philosophy, management and human resources,
• an approach illustrated by over 25 years of practice in various organizations.

Francine Laurin, Ph.D. in management, is pursuing post-doctoral studies in philosophy, teaches human resources management and coaches management teams.

In this remarkable study, one of the most striking accents is Francine Laurin's keen awareness that practical intelligence is shaped by contact with concrete questions and problems, not by learning solutions. Reality shock is an essential lever here. Quantitative learning of knowledge, which ignores creative intelligence, is ill-suited to a world of responsibility faced with increasingly unprecedented situations. This has always been true, but never more so than now, when the challenges are those of greater complexity and greater freedom.