ABSTRACT
Most project management texts present simplistic restatements of problems and prescriptive solutions; in addition, they assume causal or one-to-one correlations between situation and action. Such approaches – necessary and efficient at the hard level of project management, handling task and workflows – are limited when it comes to handling complex psychological phenomena like Shadow projections. In the Shadow of Organization deals with the dilemma of individual autonomy in an organizational society. Along the lines of what Morgan referred to as "organizations as psychic prisons". Martin Bowles applied Jungian thinking to a whole variety of issues related to management and organization in a very creative way. Robert E. Quinn explores the management of polarities and contradictions in organizational life, something that is strongly related to the integration of the Shadow, that is, the ability to accept and "work with the right polarities" that emerge in a project's experience.
