Nancy
• On Nancy

References for Theme: On Nancy

• Bertland, Alexander
• "The limits of workplace community: Jean-Luc Nancy and the possibility of teambuilding" (2011)

  (p.2) To bring Nancy’s continental philosophy to the problem of teambuilding may do violence to Nancy’s ideas. Afterall, Nancy is speaking at an ontological level that undercuts practical concerns of business and profit. Nevertheless, Nancy’s philosophy will suggest significant ways to rethink the idea of a team. He suggests teams, like communities, will always be inoperative. Members of a team will be able to share of themselves, but the team shall never be fully unified. At they same time, however, the team members must always understand themselves as being already within the context of the team and team members should reflect onthe myriad ways in which communication occurs.

• "The limits of workplace community: Jean-Luc Nancy and the possibility of teambuilding" (2011)

  (p.4) An initial question Jean-Luc Nancy considers is why do we as a culture want to form tightly knit communities that are bound together through work? A business manager might say that they want to build teams because the motivation and the communication they provide make them the most efficient ways of organizing people. However, this does not seem inherently obvious and certainly there have been times when teamwork was not as heavily relied on. Nancy suggests that there is a strong push throughout the history of our culture to create efficiently working collectives. As a result, there is deeply ingrained within us a desire to form collective entities through work. He...

• "The limits of workplace community: Jean-Luc Nancy and the possibility of teambuilding" (2011)

  (p.7) A team can have a common purpose and a moral code. Yet the team must realize that it can neither be fully unified nor control the future. A team is a group of people brought together in a historical context and their relationship will shape them in ways that cannot be predicted. Thus, a manager should not put a team together solely to fulfill a specific task. According to Nancy, a manager should put a team together and then wonder about what the future will hold. This may seem frustrating in the business world where profit is important but, given that no team can ever be fully controlled, there is...

• "The limits of workplace community: Jean-Luc Nancy and the possibility of teambuilding" (2011)