This book undertakes a critical exploration of the tools and techniques of leadership and management, favoured by many of today's books. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to scientific proof and consequently, why long-term futures of organizations are unpredictable.

1. Introduction 2. The Theory of Complex Responsive Processes: Understanding Organizations as Patterns of Interaction between People 3. Understanding Organizing Activities as the Game: The Social Background of Leadership and Management Activities 4. The Leadership and Management Tools and Techniques of Instrumental Rationality: Rules and Step by Step Procedures 5. The Limitations of the Tools and Techniques of Instrumental Rationality: Incompatibility with Expert Performance 6. The Leadership and Management Techniques of Disciplinary Power: Surveillance and Normalization 7. Taking the Techniques of Disciplinary Power to the Extreme: Domination and Coercive Persuasion 8. Institutions and the Techniques of Leadership and Management: Habits, Rules and Routines 9. The Leadership and Management 'Techniques' of Practical Judgment: Reflexive Inquiry, Improvisation and Political Adroitness 10. Conclusion: Frequently Asked Questions Appendix - Reflexive Narrative Inquiry: Movements in my Thinking and how I find Myself Working Differently as a Consequence