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SUMMARY:The Poverty of Strategy - Professor Mike Zundel\, University of Li
 verpool
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CONTACT:Rene Wiedner
DESCRIPTION:Strategy practice might be considered a technological practice
 \, indeed the most impressive and dominating such arrangement by which hum
 an beings have sought to organize their affairs\, and yet find themselves 
 being organized by them. We understand the ‘technological’ in its wide
 st sense here: the knowledgeable ordering of thought and action so as to m
 anipulate things and events with certain outcomes in mind\; an organizatio
 nal mission\, civic symbol or commercial brand can be considered technolog
 ical as readily as a machine. By using the technological as a common groun
 d we identify three strategy epochs (techne\, technology and technogenesis
 )\, each characterized by a growing intensity of organization in which hum
 an agency (the instrumental capacity to envisage and bring about effects t
 hrough thought and action) finds itself increasingly sidelined\, and then 
 almost lost. Agency itself is considered as an aspect of such a technologi
 cal condition\, meaning the loss is one of resonance (the idea of a sovere
 ign decision maker is no longer afforded by the wider technological system
 s to which strategy is integral as a governing process) rather than repres
 sion (where the existence of a sovereign decision maker is assumed\, and t
 hen considered in an increasingly parlous setting). We end by speculating 
 on the role of strategy in both impoverishing the relationship with the wo
 rld\, as well as offering the possibility\, from out of this poverty\, for
  more authentic glimpses.
LOCATION:Judge Business School\, W4.03
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