Gareth Morgan

"Though we may in quiet times confront the fact that we are going to die, much of our daily life is lived in the artificial realness created through culture. This illusion of realness helps to disguise…"

"Groups and departments often attempt to incorporate key skills and resources within their boundaries and to control admissions through selective recruitment."

"As we look around the organizational world we begin to see that it is possible to identify different species of organization in different kinds of environments. Just as we find polar bears in arctic re…"

"Imaginization is about improving our abilities to see and understand situations in new ways."

"An organization has no presence beyond that of the people who bring it to life."

"Dialectical analysis thus shows us that the management of organization, of society, and of personal life ultimately involves the management of contradiction."

"Many organizations and their managers drive toward the future while looking through the rear-view mirror. They manage in relation to events that have already occurred, rather than anticipate and confr…"

"Consider, for example, the mechanical precision with which many of our institutions are expected to operate. Organizational life is often routinized with the precision demanded of clockwork. People ar…"