Power is the medium through which conflicts of interest are ultimately resolved. Power influences who gets what, when, and how. - Gareth Morgan

Though we may in quiet times confront the fact that we are going to die, much of our daily life is lived in the artificial realness created through culture. This illusion of realness helps to disguise our unconscious fear that everything is highly vulnerable and transitory.

Dialectical analysis thus shows us that the management of organization, of society, and of personal life ultimately involves the management of contradiction.

In highlighting the role of the unconscious in organization, there is a danger that many will now want to find ways of managing the unconscious as well. This, of course, is impossible, because the unconscious is, by nature, uncontrollable.