The “necessary” knowledge is-it today a master enough for the conduct of men?What beliefs enterprise to maintain now in businesses and communities?[Le savoir « nécessaire » est-il aujourd’hui un maître suffisant pour la conduite des hommes ? Quelles croyances fédératrices entretenir encore dans les entreprises et les collectivités ?]

The "necessary" knowledge is-it today a master enough for the conduct of men?What beliefs enterprise to maintain now in businesses and communities?A conceptual baggage authenticated by an ideal university, certified by an MBA, or a school diploma, designates the heads sought by the ruling oligarchies companies and institutions. Of course, this label is not enough to make a leader because the managerial adventure is always profoundly human, therefore irrational with its magical expectations from childhood and this need for emotional communions where identity and Belonging. Federating the common activity around a project is made of subtle exchanges that exceed the purely functional logics of the economy and organizations.The human dimension, still made of emotions and passions in a transformed world, remains linked to the peculiar strangeness of desire and the unspeakable of anguish ... The statement, developed by the three authors, originated from the first Congresses of Metz around the philosophy of management. It aims at the opening of a reflection without will demonstrative reductive and without complacency, sometimes an ironic strand, on the new « managerial » surprises, often animated by (too?) beautiful conceptual and methodological claims. « Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul » already indicated Rabelais. It is possible that the management, without a symbolic human sense of shared, beyond the operational necessity, is only social bankruptcy of the collective.