This book is the third edition of a course of lectures on management by G.P. Shchedrovitsky (1929-1994), a Russian thinker, philosopher, methodologist and public figure. The author believes that the activities of organization and management are leading for the development of any practical areas. The source of the principles of the methodological school of management is a deep theoretical and ontological study of organizational thinking. The knowledge and ideas that the methodology operates have the nature of instructions for action or projects for organizing activities (or thinking). Particular attention in the lectures is paid to the systematic approach developed in the Moscow Methodological Circle.

The book is intended for specialists in organization, management and leadership, for undergraduate and graduate students of all specializations in the field of management.