WHAT MANAGERS ARE


All managers are human beings with:                          Five senses               and                    a brain





-this means that any management that goes on at anytime, or anywhere, is a human activity done by humans.


Really? What about the artificial intelligence of computers or robots that are increasingly able to assess situations, make decisions and even develop feelings and ethical standards? Well, as their label says: they are artificial intelligence. And according to the dictionary of my language: 'artificial' means made by human beings; not something existing naturally. There wasn't any management until humans came along; and there certainly weren't any computers or robots either.


So we have managers as human beings who believe that they have a controlling role in the context of a prescriptive method. Of course, Psychology as Religion requires them to mouth the cliches of consent, inclusion, cooperation etc; but the reality is that managers believe that they can manage. They are meliorists who think that their decisions and actions can act to make things better. To assess this belief, we need to consider just what human beings can actually know.


What human beings can know


We humans don’t know anything that did not originally come from the workings of a human brain: after some human, sometime or somewhere, saw, touched, heard, smelled, or tasted. From such experience humans then used their brain to decide what to do next. Knowledge, Science, or whatever we call it, comes from somebody, somewhere, doing the observation; forming the theory; thinking critically about the results; and making a conclusion. They may have published these conclusions; told a friend over a drink; or been ignored in their lifetime and then been declared a fool or a genius; but whatever happened to their knowlege: it came from a human brain via the senses.


What the human brain can and cannot do


I’m not a neuroscientist; but I think that I have found out this much about the human brain:



Then, whatever the more precise values of my figures may be, they mean that the human brain is a machine with a limited size and limited ability to deal with the complexity of what we humans experience; whether it is in everyday life or when theorising about the Universe around us.


This last statement is important and needs some explaining; so let's look into it further- - - >