TITLE:
Agroforestry: The Future of the Planet through the Operational Teams Management
AUTHORS:
Albino Anjos Lopes, Fernando Acabado Romana
KEYWORDS:
Agroforestry, Management, Team, People, Planet, Future
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.12 No.10,
October
31,
2022
ABSTRACT: The
main purpose of this study is the presentation of the relationship between Art
and Science, with regard to the production and conservation of life, in the
context of developed societies of the 21st century, seen as two faces of the
research of a reality, extremely complex, but that almost all aim to reduce to
a simplistic equation. Despite all the climate summits that have taken place
(we are going to the 26th), without any real solutions being reached as
effective solutions for the future, there does not even seem to be a clear
awareness of the circumstances that have led the world to a situation of
emergency. That is why we sought to place the climate issue in the context of a
revolution according to the principles of the paradigm of the decisive
importance of small groups, of small initiatives, that is, of the “lean”
philosophy for agriculture, which accompanied (and surpassed) the “lean”
revolution that took place in the industry in the early 1970s. It should be
remembered that this was the precise moment
when the first warnings from the “Club de Roma” were heard, about the
limits to growth and the predictable depletion of resources, as well as the
need to reverse the path of increasing waste. Finally, we consider that this
“coincidence of divergence” between the paradigms of agriculture (still deeply
anchored in the productivism of a primary Taylorism) and that of industry
(conceived, however, from the notion of team and organization in a network of
small businesses, as well as an ability to work collaboratively), may not be the result of mere chance. In a well-documented article, discuss, based on a literature review, the
relationship between people management and art. The authors support and support
our position on the need for intuition (support of
imagination, sensitivity and skill) in the
management of human creativity, as we have defended in our works. Organizations
open to the ambitions of art are better able to pursue multiple
(non-hierarchical) goals, based on fluid and “semi-connected” technologies, as
James March and Karl Weick teach, following John Dewey.