The Importance of Philosophy

Yeah, sure it's another Ayn Rand rip-off � but it's quality content non-the-less. Check out ImportanceOfPhilosophy.com and in particular the section on Epistemology.

MWT has this theory which goes something like:

• management is required because of the division of labour

• in a knowledge-based economy division of labour equals division of knowledge (already recognised in Hayek's Use of Knowledge in Society anyway)

• management of knowledge is therefore what management is all about (including both discipline specific knowledge and cross-discipline knowledge such as plans, strategies, etc)

• add to that the concept that management isn't so much a discipline as a 'technology' for integrating labour

• as a technology everybody must be actually using management for it to work

• to 'use' a mental technology such as management is to simply have a shared understanding of certain things

The question is then 'what to share?'. This is where the Epistemology page mentioned above might be useful. In the section on 'Specifics' it lists Concepts, Definitions, Words, Emotions, Integration, Values, Certainly, Deduction, Induction/Abstraction, Focus, and Evasion.

That list overlaps nicely which what a MWT management philosophy for cross-discipline collaboration might suggest you focus a shared understanding on.