Sensory templates and manager cognition: art, cognitive science and spiritual practices in management education

This volume explores the role of art and spiritual practices in management education.

It takes recent developments in cognitive science relating to the metaphorical and embodied nature of cognition as its starting point.

Introducing the concept of 'sensory templates', Springborg demonstrates how managers unconsciously understand organisational situations and actions as analogous to concrete sensorimotor experiences, such as pushing, pulling, balancing, lifting, moving with friction, connecting and moving various substances.

Real-life management and leadership case studies illustrate how changing the sensory templates one uses to understand a particular situation can increase managerial efficiency and bring simple solutions to problems that have troubled managers for years.