Skillful Performance

One of the most intriguing questions since the time of Plato concerns what defines skillful performance in terms of specific capabilities knowledge competence and expertise. As Frederick Taylor famously noted an answer to that question would enable us to know what to focus on and what to do to improve the performance of individuals groups and organizations. Although we have come to know a great deal about the 'properties' of capabilities knowledge competence and expertise at large we know significantly less about <em>how</em> they are enacted in skillful performance. Thus how skillful performance draws on knowledge how skills develop and how competencies and capabilities are put to action are still eluding us. Process thinking has not sufficiently explored skillful performance. <p/>This book aims to address this gap. It brings together scholars from different backgrounds traditions and disciplines whose common perspective is distinctly process-oriented. They seek to rethink capabilities knowledge competence and expertise not as if these phenomena were already accomplished but on the contrary as processes in the making - as <em>performative accomplishments</em>. Such rethinking opens up several new conversations and extends the range of inquiry about <em>how</em> capabilities knowledge competence and expertise are accomplished in practice and consequently how they may be improved.<br>