“Three white men walk into a bar” – TQM’s vanguard pluralistic intersectionality and Maine de Biran’s open-process
"Three white men walk into a bar” – TQM’s vanguard pluralistic intersectionality and Maine de Biran’s open-process
Political thought and action, based on the collective objective of common good, are intrinsically present in human’s creations, including in science and technology, as a form of aspiration to judgment, in the Arendtian sense. This approach by Arendt opens the judgment to the highest level of perspectives possible, in the search for a greater good, similar to Maine de Biran’s open process. In the rich, educated and industrialised world, with high levels of concentration of technology, Total Quality Management has successfully allowed industries, organizations and institutions to gradually adapt to the new circumstances of the past 20th century, including the gradual transition from industry-based societies to a focus on services. In the 21st century, facing the radical changes in contemporary societies, and the necessary responses to the double challenge of growing economic inequality and the rapid deterioration of environmental conditions, are a test that is already being faced by avant-garde institutions, especially designed to promote exploratory, provisional, and heuristic, trial-and-error actions. Through plural, inclusive and integrative open processes and approaches, which cross pre-established categorisations, in an intersectional way, newness is already emerging. The open nature is intrinsic to the processes of exploring avant-garde thought, which was actively explored in the past, and such philosophical reflection has gained new relevance in the present. Maine de Biran explored sensations, apperception, intuition and will, arguing that the open process of resistance of internal and external reality to human interpretation efforts is the trigger for the creation of knowledge. By recognizing the rich heritage of management philosophy, critical computing, regenerative design and talent management, it is possible to broaden the horizon of contemporary understanding of TQM. Most importantly, by recognizing current capabilities and vulnerabilities it is possible to address potential prospective and exploratory developments that can respond to both future and present time challenges.
critical computing, managerial political turn, regenerative design, talent management.
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