To manage the activities of others

To manage the activities of others through application of communication technologies world-wide merits
reconsideration of what well established concepts, namely management and learning, mean in the context
of trans-national, inter-continental human organizations. A particular form of knowledge to manage and
guide human organizations is becoming increasingly important due to operational complexities associated
with global outreach. This form is called open knowledge. Team oriented approaches characteristically
systemic, holistic, socio culturally sensitive, interdependent, chameleon-like, and expertise-wise diverse in
know-how are more important than ever, while individuals must be allowed greater freedom to operate in
the broadened context. Open knowledge may emerge when particular conditions exist. Expanding one’s
conception of the learning organization helps one to comprehend as well as participate in global human
activity systems. Appearance of and application of open knowledge brings consequential modifications of
familiar and established local-regional managerial practices.