Krill

We didn’t know the name, Organisational Management until now. It didn’t call itself that. Business Studies – that was the old name … An inaccurate name …

But now, Organisational Management is naming itself as such. It’s coming out into the open as exactly what it is. It doesn’t need to disguise itself any longer.

It can be brazen – quite open. It can walk in daylight. It can be abroad. There it is, unabashed, unashamed, nothing other than what it is.

Organisational Management – not even business studies. It’s not even called business studies. It doesn’t need that alibi. It is what it is.

 

Organisational Management, opening its eyes. Taking its first steps. It’s even cute, in its way. All these baby Organisational Managers, with their new subject area. Wondering what it is they’re doing.

Organisational Management! There’s an innocence to it. a newness. It used to be called Business Studies, but now …

Organisational Management! It’s as one with the new university buildings. With the steel and glass.

And it’s not even a New University subject anymore. It’s moved into the old universities. Into the traditional universities.

Soon, everyone will be studying Organisational Management … Nothing but Organisational Management. In the beginning, there was philosophy, and all the other disciplines split off from philosophy. In the end, there will be only Organisational Management, as all the other disciplines have been subsumed by Organisational Management.

 

Organisational Management. The all-subject. The ur-subject. All unis are Organisational Management unis, nothing else. They’re simply about organisation! And management!

Organisational Management, the newest subject area, meets philosophy, the oldest subject area. Organisational Management, which has no lofty history, which comes from nowhere, meets philosophy, which is all lofty history, and which comes from the great centres of civilization! Which was born in ancient India, ancient China, ancient Greece!

Organisational Management, the etymology of which isn’t really very interesting, meets Philosophy, the etymology of which means a friendship with wisdom, the friendly desire for wisdom.

 

The Organisational Management maw! Swallowing everything! Innocently! Thinking nothing of it! Barely aware of its enormous power!

Organisational Management! Almost faculty-sized. Scooping up everything. Swallowing the humanities, in one gulp …

Organisational Management! And what’s philosophy to its vast bulk? A bit of plankton to a whale. A bit of krill …