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Classics of Organisational Research - David Bohm - by Thomas Klug
Thomas Klug
A quantum physicist whose work reshaped organisational thinking, David Bohm was more interested in cosmic transformation than corporate life. Thomas Klug traces how Bohm's ideas found their way into organisations anyway, carried there by practitioners like Peter Garrett and William Isaacs.
Klug's article situates Bohm within the literature of organisational research and development, arguing that Bohm's core findings remain underappreciated as foundations for this field. Bohm's own focus was broad: the individual, social, and cosmic dimensions of life and their potential for societal transformation. Organisations and the economy were, by his own inclination, secondary concerns. It fell to those who worked alongside him to translate his thinking into organisational practice. Klug identifies the most significant of Bohm's ideas and presents them as neglected classics, making the case that understanding Bohm directly, rather than through later adaptations, matters for anyone serious about dialogue in organisations.
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Dialogue in organisations and systems, Foundations of Professional Dialogue
Bohm scholarship
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