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What does it mean?
McNamara describes management as the mechanism through which societal, economic, and political changes are spread.
In plain terms
He says management is how changes spread through society.
What can you take from it?
Management acts as a primary tool for societal change.

Where it applies

  • organizational theory
  • social engineering

Putting it to work

  • leveraging management for change
  • studying societal structures

Questions to consider

  • Does management truly drive change?
  • Is change only systemic?

Another view

It reduces complex change to management functions.

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