1. September 2002 saw the launch of the Art of Management and Organization Conference in London. It was the first of a proposed series of international conferences the aims of which are to explore the dramatic increase in recent years of the articulation of the humanities and the field of social inquiry into management and organization, as well as the utilization of artistic processes in the activity of managing. The conference was informed by the field of organizational aesthetics and its dramatic growth over the past 10-15 years, and focused on those dimensions of management and organization that render them an art, not purely a science. More information about this and future conferences can be found at: http:// www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/emc/second_art_of_ management_and_org.htm.
2. Training does not imply learning: the individual's perspective