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Managing Around

ProfManagement

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Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 77

Managing Around is a bi-weekly educational podcast about Social Science, Culture and Management. The host of the show is Dr Maik Arnold, Professor for Social Work Management at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden (@ProfManagement) who talks about pressing issues in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Social Work Management, Management History and Culture. Unlike other podcasts, Managing Around takes a transdisciplinary approach and views management phenomena through the lens of social sciences and humanities. Besides, it is the only podcast, so far, that also covers works and themes in social science poetry.

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77. From Second Brain to Shared Brain: 500 Years of Knowledge Management

Saturday, August 1, 2026 • Duration 12:38

Imagine this: It's the 15th century in Florence. Knowledge is spreading from notebook to notebook, going “viral” without a single printing press. A passage from Dante's Divine Comedy circulates through handwritten notebooks. Someone copies it. And someone else finds it, adds their own thoughts, writes it down, ready to be shared later. Sound familiar? — Fast forward 500 years, and we're doing the same thing, just digitally. Today, I want to tell you why the personal knowledge management systems you're probably struggling with right now aren't actually new at all. They have deep roots—and that history can teach us something interesting about how to build knowledge systems that actually last not just for a live time but for generations. Therefore, we will end this episode with three intriguing lessons.

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76. Think Slowly in a Fast World: Digital Gardening and Knowledge Governance

Thursday, April 2, 2026 • Duration 11:45

Let me ask you something. When was the last time you actually knew where your knowledge is stored? Not a file. Not a saved email. Not a bookmark you'll never open again. I mean a living sense of what you know, how it connects, and why it matters — right now, in your professional life. For most of us working in management, in social work, in education — the answer is: we don't. We generate ideas in meetings, publish papers, annotate reports, we paste things into apps we'll forget we have. And then we wonder why it feels like we're starting from scratch every Monday again. In this episode, I want to talk about a practice called Digital Gardening — and why I think it might be one of the most underrated approaches in personal knowledge management and higher education alike. Not because it's new. And not because it's technological. But because it forces you to do something that good management has always required: to take responsibility for your own thinking.

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75. Beyond the Search Bar: Navigating the AI Literature Review

Monday, December 29, 2025 • Duration 07:24

Imagine you are developing an idea for new research. You find a mountain of journal articles that seems perfect, but how can we process the vast amount of information, and how can we use it for our own research? Or imagine you need to synthesise 5 studies on “remote work productivity” for your next class on organisation research by tomorrow. In the past, this was a manual grind and involved a great deal of labour. While producing high-quality research remains a rigorous human endeavour, AI-powered literature review apps now allow you to synthesise insights more efficiently by having a conversation directly with the literature. We often talk about the “hype” versus the “real promise” of AI in management and social science. But how do we actually manage this? Today, I want to take you through three research engines that I’ve been exploring and using for quite some time: Elicit.com, Scite.ai, and Consensus. First, we will examine their specific functionalities—including recent advancements in agentic workflows and structured data extraction—to identify the unique purposes and benefits each tool offers to the researcher.

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74. Beyond Coding: How AI Is Transforming the Way We Make Meaning

Sunday, November 30, 2025 • Duration 10:57

You’re sitting at your desk, staring at a mountain of interview transcripts. Hours upon hours of human stories. Contradictions. Emotions. Moments of confusion. Moments of clarity. Everything that makes qualitative data so beautifully complex… and so incredibly time-consuming. You stretch your shoulders. You breathe in. Likewise, you prepare for the long, slow, careful journey ahead. And then — someone else pulls up a chair. Someone who reads your transcripts in seconds. Someone who instantly suggests themes, highlights patterns, and summarizes ten interviews faster than you can sip your espresso. But this “someone”… doesn’t understand any of it. They don’t grasp cultural nuance. They don’t know your theory. Furthermore, they certainly don’t know your participants. This “someone” is AI. And suddenly the big questions appear: What does it mean to bring AI into the deeply interpretive world of qualitative research? What do we gain? What do we risk? And how does it change the way we, as researchers, make sense of the world? That’s where we’re going today. We’re talking about something that feels both exciting and a little unsettling: What happens when artificial intelligence joins us in qualitative research?

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73. The Secret Knowledge Management Skills Every Teacher Masters

Friday, August 1, 2025 • Duration 10:15

Picture this: It's 2 AM, and Professor Maik is sitting in his office, surrounded by stacks of research papers, sticky notes covering his monitor, and notebooks filled with half-finished ideas. He's preparing for tomorrow's lecture but can't find that brilliant insight about team dynamics. It's somewhere in his notes, but where? Sounds familiar? This scenario plays out in workspaces worldwide every day. We're drowning in information, yet starving for knowledge. But what if the solution isn't just better filing systems or productivity apps? What if it lies in understanding how we can become better knowledge managers ourselves? In this episode, we're exploring how teachers have become the unsung heroes of knowledge management, and what the rest of us can learn from their approach. Teachers don't just deliver information – they're sophisticated knowledge managers who create, organize, share, and evolve knowledge daily. The strategies they use can revolutionize how any of us handles information professionally.

References:

Mayowa-Adebara, O., & Enakrire, R. T. (2024). Determinant of Knowledge Sharing among Lecturers in Higher Education Institutions in Nigeria. European Conference on Knowledge Management, 25(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.34190/eckm.25.1.2769

Quarchioni, S., Paternostro, S., & Trovarelli, F. (2020). Knowledge management in higher education: A literature review and further research avenues. Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 20(2), 304–319. https://doi.org/10.1080/14778238.2020.1730717

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72. Beyond the Hype: The Real Promise and Perils of AI in Social Work

Thursday, July 31, 2025 • Duration 13:23

Welcome back, dear listeners, to another fascinating dive into the ever-changing management world around us! Today, we're tackling a topic that's often shrouded in mystery, sometimes fear, but also immense potential: Artificial Intelligence, or Generative AI, and its surprising, often subtle, year powerful role in the field of Social Work. It is no longer a question of whether its inclusion in social work organisations is necessary; the focus is now on where and how it should be implemented. I'd like to sincerely thank TH Nuremberg for generously developing and sharing the e-learning course on AI in Social Work, freely available to all of us.

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Lehmann, R. (2025). KI und Soziale Arbeit. [E-Learning]. TH Nürnberghttps://open.vhb.org/blocks/occoursemetaselect/detailpage.php?id=236

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71. Planting Success: Nurturing the 13 Functions of Social Work Organizations

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 • Duration 17:01

As spring unfolds across Central Europe, gardens burst into life. Today, we’ll explore thirteen essential management functions—exactly as laid out in a garden illustration—from The Garden Plan to The Compost Heap. Picture your organisation as a community garden: each element, from planning beds to composting, represents a key management activity. In this episode, we’ll walk through each garden function in order, sharing an intuitive narrative and concrete examples from professional social work practice.

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70. Navigating Resistance to Change: Practical Strategies for Social Work Leaders

Monday, March 31, 2025 • Duration 15:45

Today, we're diving into a topic that affects every organization, every team, and quite frankly, all of us – resistance to change. As Waldman and O'Reilly (2022) found in their research, resistance to change is one of the main reasons why up to 70% of organizational changes fail to achieve their desired results. We will unpack why this happens and, more importantly, how you can successfully navigate it – especially in social work settings where the stakes are often incredibly high.

Reference:

Anderson, D. L. (2020). Organization development: The process of leading organizational change. Sage Publications.
Bordia, P., Restubog, S. L. D., Jimmieson, N. L., & Irmer, B. E. (2011). Haunted by the past: Effects of poor change management history on employee attitudes and turnover. Group & Organization Management, 36(2), 191-222.
Burnes, B. (2015). Understanding resistance to change — Building on Coch and French. Journal of Change Management, 15(2), 92-116.
Coch, L., & French, J. R. P., Jr. (1948). Overcoming resistance to change. Human Relations, 1(4), 512-532.
Dent, E. B., & Goldberg, S. G. (1999). Challenging "resistance to change." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 35(1), 25-41.
Kotter, J. P., & Schlesinger, L. A. (2008). Choosing strategies for change. Harvard Business Review, 86(7/8), 130-139. Lewin, K. (1947). Frontiers in group dynamics: Concept, method and reality in social science; social equilibria and social change. Human Relations, 1(1), 5-41.
Waldman, D. A., & O'Reilly, C. (2022). Leadership for organizations. FlatWorld.
Warrick, D. D. (2022). Revisiting resistance to change and how to manage it: What has been learned and what organizations need to do. Business Horizons, 66, 433-441.

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69. Rethinking Culture: Beyond the Clash

Thursday, February 27, 2025 • Duration 13:41

In today’s episode, we’re diving into the topic of “culture”–what it is, where it came from, and how recent thinking challenges our assumptions. One key idea we’ll be looking at is that culture isn’t a rigid, unchanging force pushing people apart but rather a dynamic interplay of multiple influences that can unite us if we learn how to forge a shared sense of belonging. By exploring this idea, we’ll see how moving beyond the notion of “clashing cultures” can open up more productive and inclusive ways of working together.

Reference:
Rathje, S. (2011). The Cohesion Approach of Culture and its Implications for the Training of Intercultural Competence. Journal Advances in Higher Education: Research, Education and Innovation, 95–114.

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68. Gears of Progress: How Management Theories Shaped Today's Organisations

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 • Duration 12:42

Have you ever wondered why we manage our teams or institutions the way we do? Or how did management even become a discipline? Today, we'll journey back to uncover where management thinking began and how it has evolved. From the ancient roots of "manus" (Latin for "hand") to modern theories that emphasise people, context, and ever-changing environments. We will see that "what management is" truly depends on the perspective of how we approach it.

Reference:
Witzel, M. (2012). A History of Management Thought. Routledge.

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