Managing as a Performing Art

A collection of thought-provoking essays on management and leadership that propose radical new ways of thinking about what managers do and what organizations are. Permanent White Water.

The Theory of Managing in the Managerial Competency Movement.

Winning Is Only the Thing You Think Winning Is.

The Peak Performance Cult.

The Grand Paradox of Management.

Reflection and the Technoholic.

Satchmo's Paradox.

Managing as a Performing Art.

It's All People.

The End of Culture and the Dialexic Society.

What Should the Top Team Be Talking About?

Taoist Management: 'Composedly They Went and Came'.

Management as Snake Handling.

The Requisites of Visionary Leadership. "Many managers and advanced business students will have difficulty exploring Vaill's challenges without prejudice, but those who succeed will be much richer not only as managers, but as citizens of the highly dynamic and, at times, chaotic organizational world of today."(Choice)

PETER B. VAILL holds the Distinguished Chair in Management Education at St. Thomas University, Minneapolis. Cited by Training and Development Journal. As one of the top ten organization development specialists in the United States, he has consulted with universities, health systems, professional associations, and multinational corporations around the world. He is the author of Learning as a Way of Being and Managing as a Performing Art.