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In this important book Niklas Luhmann – one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century – analyses the emergence of ‘love\" as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies....

Any organization, no matter how stolid, may be unsettled by the news that a new boss is about to take over. Talk in the hallways increases, staff worry about their jobs, uncertainty grows. Even when the change has happened, problems emerge when the boss who was hired to manage “from above” has to learn about the organization “from below....