Intelligent bots manage the growth of knowledge and dream of saving our souls. Flash mobs clash on streets and paradigms fight on screens. Which politicians to trust and which scientists to believe? The Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo declared the year 2019 The Year of Return for the descendants of the black Africans sold as slaves. No social media. The Polish "Solidarity" messaged the working class under the communists in 1981. No media. No expert authorities. Experts enjoyed authority after the successful production of the nuclear bomb in 1945. The pandemic plague after 2020 wiped the best and the brightest experts out. To vax or not to vax remains a painfully open question. Elon Musk joins the Royal Academy. Clouds of knowledge accumulate. This book explains why different drummers emerge. Readers are encouraged to ask if the intelligent designs differ from the evolution guessed by the blind watchmakers.
Sawomir J. Magala is currently with the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw, Poland (since 2019). He has taught cross-cultural management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands (1985-2015) and at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland (2016-2019). He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Change Management (since 2004). He wrote "Class Struggle in Classless Poland" (1982), "Between Stock Exchange and a Waste Dump" (1999, in Polish), "Cross-Cultural Management" (2005), "The Management of Meaning in Organizations" (2009), and "The Third Enlightenment or Globalizing Meritocracies" (2021). He has also co-edited "Managing Public Trust" (2018) and "Hofstede Matters" (2024), and translated Susan Sontag, Alfred N. Whitehead, John Barth, Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer into Polish. He has supervised over 100 master theses and 25 PhD dissertations. He is interested in the philosophy of science, as it turns into the management of knowledge and transforms the cultural contents of digitalized communications, and has sometimes held the role of a public intellectual.
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