Corporate philosophy
Applying philosophical tools for the analysis of reality to the operations of production organisations
Applying philosophy to company management might sound strange, but it is a notion that entails concrete foundations. Actually, considering the complexities that entrepreneurs and managers must tackle every day, the toolbox that philosophy can provide to understand what is going on could be really valuable and could lead to a new and intriguing concept of production culture.
It is around these themes that Daniele Mattia’s Executive philosophy. Un’evoluzione per manager, organizzazioni e filosofia (Executive philosophy. An evolution for managers, organisations and philosophy) revolves, a recently published book inspired by a number of questions.
The author, for instance, wonders why philosophy should have a place in management and how the evolution of managers and organisations might relate to philosophical concepts. These lead to more general questions: would borrowing concept and picking up notions be enough to develop a new managerial outlook, support organisations, or have a real impact on current issues?
Mattia’s work, however, is much more radical than the mere juxtaposition of corporate management and philosophy, as it provides an in-depth review of advanced thinking and places it at the heart of organisations and of contemporary society as a whole, an effort that leads to the conception and application of a new discipline built on vision, method and rather original means. Indeed, the book introduces us to the notion of ‘executive philosophy’ as well as to a new professional figure, the ‘executive philosopher’. Mattia’s aim is not merely to achieve change, development or innovation, but to attain evolution.
This is not an easy book to read, but it does guide readers along a path that starts by considering the reality experienced by entrepreneurs and managers in their companies and then looks at various knowledge and analytical tools that are a bit more unusual, as well as a management method based on a different vision of corporate reality.
A rather complex work, for sure, but a very important one, especially as it ends by appealing to a sense of responsibility that everyone should share. As Daniele Mattia writes in the last pages: “Responsibility entails a commitment to symmetry, to reciprocation: if we are able to reap the benefits of positive consequences, results or events, we must also be able to share, symmetrically, their negative damage and impact, paying the price if things did not go the way we wanted or if, indeed, harm was done’.
Executive philosophy. Un’evoluzione per manager, organizzazioni e filosofia (Executive philosophy. An evolution for managers, organisations and philosophy)
Daniele Mattia
Guerini Next, 2023
Applying philosophical tools for the analysis of reality to the operations of production organisations
Applying philosophy to company management might sound strange, but it is a notion that entails concrete foundations. Actually, considering the complexities that entrepreneurs and managers must tackle every day, the toolbox that philosophy can provide to understand what is going on could be really valuable and could lead to a new and intriguing concept of production culture.
It is around these themes that Daniele Mattia’s Executive philosophy. Un’evoluzione per manager, organizzazioni e filosofia (Executive philosophy. An evolution for managers, organisations and philosophy) revolves, a recently published book inspired by a number of questions.
The author, for instance, wonders why philosophy should have a place in management and how the evolution of managers and organisations might relate to philosophical concepts. These lead to more general questions: would borrowing concept and picking up notions be enough to develop a new managerial outlook, support organisations, or have a real impact on current issues?
Mattia’s work, however, is much more radical than the mere juxtaposition of corporate management and philosophy, as it provides an in-depth review of advanced thinking and places it at the heart of organisations and of contemporary society as a whole, an effort that leads to the conception and application of a new discipline built on vision, method and rather original means. Indeed, the book introduces us to the notion of ‘executive philosophy’ as well as to a new professional figure, the ‘executive philosopher’. Mattia’s aim is not merely to achieve change, development or innovation, but to attain evolution.
This is not an easy book to read, but it does guide readers along a path that starts by considering the reality experienced by entrepreneurs and managers in their companies and then looks at various knowledge and analytical tools that are a bit more unusual, as well as a management method based on a different vision of corporate reality.
A rather complex work, for sure, but a very important one, especially as it ends by appealing to a sense of responsibility that everyone should share. As Daniele Mattia writes in the last pages: “Responsibility entails a commitment to symmetry, to reciprocation: if we are able to reap the benefits of positive consequences, results or events, we must also be able to share, symmetrically, their negative damage and impact, paying the price if things did not go the way we wanted or if, indeed, harm was done’.
Executive philosophy. Un’evoluzione per manager, organizzazioni e filosofia (Executive philosophy. An evolution for managers, organisations and philosophy)
Daniele Mattia
Guerini Next, 2023