MANAGEMENT DESIGN

Managing People and Organizations in Turbulent Times

Making management visible as a design discipline

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Why this book exists

This book was written to surface management as an explicit design choice rather than an inherited structure.

It challenges the invisibility of management decisions embedded in everyday routines.

The book invites leaders to observe how management is designed—by action or by neglect.

What this book helps you see

• How management design shapes behavior
• Why unmanaged design leads to fragmentation
• Where implicit choices dominate explicit ones

How this book is used today

Used as a conceptual backbone for facilitation and reflection canvases

Author context

Management Design is grounded in research on organizational systems and managerial decision-making.

It reflects long-term work on making implicit management choices explicit and discussable.

The book positions management as a design discipline with systemic consequences.

Further reflections & related material

Related reflections emerging from this work:

• Notes on implicit and explicit management design
• Conversations on management as a system
• Research on the foundations of management innovation
• Practice reflections using design lenses in management dialogue

Status

Published: Lukas Michel, LID Publishing, London, 3rd Edition, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-911671-67-1

Visual design from Thomas Wickart: wickart.digital

Part of the Clarity Before Change body of work