This paper reviews theory and research regarding the ‘‘Michelangelo phenomenon.’’ The Michelangelomodel suggests that close partners sculpt one another’s selves, shaping one another’s skills and traits and promoting versus inhibiting one another’s goal pursuits. As a result of the manner in which partners perceive and behave toward one another, each person enjoys greater or lesser success at at...

A danger that postmodernism faces is that it is branded as irrelevant to practicing managers – those who daily influence the lives of others. Part of the accusation of irrelevance derives from attacks on postmodern thinking that see it as propounding a sense of purposelessness and antipathy to action. It is possible to see such accusations as being based on a reading of Lyotard’s (1984) demolit...

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De Marco once said that what cannot be measured cannot me managed. Academicians and practitioners in the field of software engineering and information systems project, have consistently cited “intangibility” of software leads to stakeholder conflicts and lack of top management support resulting in the failure of over 75% of Information Systems Projects. Cost overruns and delayed delivery not on...