Aimed at higher level students of management, the author encourages management professionals and educators to recognise that judgment, improvisation and experience are vital to good management and leadership. He asks "What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to apply 'best practice', or to take up 'evidence-based management' and what kind of thinking does this imply?" In Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues that management courses may cause as many crises as they alleviate. Taking examples of managing and leading in contemporary organisations, his book treats uncertainty as central to the task of leading and managing and explores the limits of current management theories. It provides alternatives to grids and frameworks and invites the reader to reflect about what it might mean to participate in the ongoing negotiations in organisations.