Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to the 3rd Annual Humanistic Management Conference in collaboration with the Global Ethic Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, October 8/9.
If interested in the pre-conference for academic publishing on the topic (Oct.7) see cfp on webpage.
You can find more information here: https://www.amiando.com/FLTSGIX
Prudent Business: Practical Wisdom for Managers
On account of various economic crises driven by imprudent strategic and financial decision-making, the business community increasingly poses the question: How can we manage better and more prudently? While most people agree that future management practices must unite the interests of people, planet, and profits, the question of how to do so needs to be explored further.
Across the ages, prudence (Latin: prudentia, Greek: phronesis) has been considered indispensable for sustainable excellence in business. Whereas most people today understand prudence as cleverness and smarts, in antiquity and the Middle Ages a much richer understanding of prudence prevailed, linking instrumental intelligence to moral wisdom. In fact, for many centuries it was thought that the virtues could only achieve their 'perfection' if founded upon prudence, the "mother of all virtues". Instead of being reduced to a mere finding and fitting of means to given ends, prudence comprised and enabled the critical adjustments of these ends to overarching goals and values.
The Humanistic Management Conference on "Prudent Business" seeks to explore this traditional notion of prudence together with the idea of practical wisdom and how these can be helpful in addressing contemporary problems regarding the moral, social, and ecological sustainability of business. When is there a convergence of ethos and excellence, principles and profits? How can prudence help to turn good deeds into profitable businesses and employ the quest for profits for socially desirable outcomes? What can practitioners and consultants teach academics and policy makers in this regard? What can practitioners and consultants learn from academia and policy?
You are cordially invited to join the Humanistic Management Network Conference:
https://www.amiando.com/FLTSGIX
If You are interested in becoming a Member of the Humanistic Management Network click here for reduced entry fee and other benefits:
http://www.humanetwork.org
(suggested donation of 100 USD).
Please let me know if you have questions.
Best regards,
Michael
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Michael Pirson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Humanistic Management
Fordham University
Research Fellow, Harvard University
Partner, The Humanistic Management Network