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Shadow Working in Project Management: Understanding and Addressing the Irrational and Unconscious in Groups

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Shadow Working in Project Management aims at contributing to our knowledge of all things unconscious and irrational in our behaviour. It takes the form of an empirical research, and therefore addresses mostly the tools and techniques available to get in touch with Shadow aspects of self and collective, to recognize how it manifests, how it can lead to conflict, and ways to address it. From that perspective, it advances on to question the underlying beliefs of current management practices. It explores as well the inherent need for control in projects, being those of a professional nature, or other ventures. It challenges the strength of the concept of the "rational man" and its protagonism. Joana Bértholo’s work explores the role and nature of the Shadow in the context of projects and their management, with an emphasis on techniques to address it. Despite being directed to managers and dedicated to the analyses of the managerial discourse, the tools and processes it proposes have universal relevance, based on the fact that the Shadow is everywhere, within everyone, from the individual to the global scale.

202 pages, Paperback

Published September 30, 2020

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Joana Bértholo

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Nasceu em Lisboa em 1982. É licenciada em Design de Comunicação pelas Belas-Artes de Lisboa e doutorada em Estudos Culturais pela European University Viadrina, na Alemanha. Em paralelo à criação literária, escreve para teatro, faz apoio dramatúrgico e dá aulas. Na editorial Caminho tem publicados três romances, dois livros de contos e um livro infanto-juvenil. O primeiro romance «Diálogos Para o Fim do Mundo» ganhou o Prémio Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho 2009. «O Museu do Pensamento» foi considerado pela Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores o melhor livro Infanto-Juvenil de 2018; e o romance «Ecologia» foi finalista do prémio APE, PEN, DST, Casino da Póvoa e semifinalista do Prémio Oceanos 2019. Em teatro, começou por escrever para o Festival Teatro das Compras. A primeira peça longa, «Quarto Minguante», foi encenada por Álvaro Correia no Teatro Nacional D. Maria II em 2018. No mesmo ano foi-lhe atribuída a Bolsa da DGLAB, com a qual escreveu «Corpo/Arena», que iria estrear em Itália, não tivesse a Covid19 cancelado tudo.

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