Postmod Definitions of Managing and Organizing

P - Planning

Planning is a plot. Critically, it is a plot storied and staged processes of deskilling, scripted by characters who rehearse and present planning Metatheatre to extract surplus value of labor and management in a more or less democratic authorship in which plan, do, check and act are divided or integrated labor.

O - Organizing

Organizing is a set of dialectic Frames and Themes. Frames are ideologies (e.g. Marxism, Taylorism, Postmodernism, and Free market Capitalism). In the TAMARA storytelling system with opposed and collusive, even hybrid narrative frames, doing collective memory work.  Themes of oppression fan out in ways that Paulo Freire knew. Frames and Themes are enacted in Tamara-esque Metatheatrics in an environment of specularity and antenarrative, these are enmeshed in transorganizational networks of supply chains and distribution relations in which the First World colonizes the Third World in the name of globalization. We are fooled by the charade and facade of the virtual corporation (be it Nike or Enron) into believing that the 3rd world and the 1st world are not being thoroughly exploited. 

I - Influencing

Influencing is done through Dialog. Influencing is narrative and Metatheatre in which the Society of the Spectacle, with both production and consumptive spectacles fashions a Matrix of desire and addiction, that can be deconstructed, so we can unplug. In our Dialog we have swallowed the Blue Pill. 

L - Leading

Leading is about Enrolling a Cast of CHARACTERS. Some characters have no voices. Leading is carried out in Four Voices, storied in theatrics to evoke charismatic, catalyst, rebel and other leaderly archetypes (Myers-Briggs reigns), which may or may not be suited to the embedding narrative frames of organizing, the influencing spectacularity, nor the strategic scripts.

C - Controlling

Controlling is about RHYTHM. Controlling is accomplished in Metatheatrical scripts (Metascripts) and the accounting story of prosperity and ecological (non) options, legitimating spectacles, and the gaze of surveillance. We see this in Enron and Arthur Andersen. Th Rhythm of predatory hyper-competitiveness is being opposed by the Ahimsa rhythm of non-violence, Simplicity, what I call Festivalism.