Managing Around is a bi-weekly educational podcast about Social Science, Culture and Management. The host of the show is Dr Maik Arnold, Professor for Social Work Management at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden (@ProfManagement) who talks about pressing issues in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Social Work Management, Management History and Culture. Unlike other podcasts, Managing Around takes a transdisciplinary approach and views management phenomena through the lens of social sciences and humanities. Besides, it is the only podcast, so far, that also covers works and themes in social science poetry.
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77. From Second Brain to Shared Brain: 500 Years of Knowledge Management
Imagine this: It's the 15th century in Florence. Knowledge is spreading from notebook to notebook, going “viral” without a single printing press. A passage from Dante's Divine Comedy circulates through handwritten notebooks. Someone copies it. And someone else finds it, adds their own thoughts, writes it down, ready to be shared later. Sound familiar? — Fast forward 500 years, and we're doing the same thing, just digitally. Today, I want to tell you why the personal knowledge management systems you're probably struggling with right now aren't actually new at all. They have deep roots—and that history can teach us something interesting about how to build knowledge systems that actually last not just for a live time but for generations. Therefore, we will end this episode with three intriguing lessons.
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2 Apr 2026
76. Think Slowly in a Fast World: Digital Gardening and Knowledge Governance
Let me ask you something. When was the last time you actually knew where your knowledge is stored? Not a file. Not a saved email. Not a bookmark you'll never open again. I mean a living sense of what you know, how it connects, and why it matters — right now, in your professional life. For most of us working in management, in social work, in education — the answer is: we don't. We generate ideas in meetings, publish papers, annotate reports, we paste things into apps we'll forget we have. And then we wonder why it feels like we're starting from scratch every Monday again. In this episode, I want to talk about a practice called Digital Gardening — and why I think it might be one of the most underrated approaches in personal knowledge management and higher education alike. Not because it's new. And not because it's technological. But because it forces you to do something that good management has always required: to take responsibility for your own thinking.
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29 Dec 2025
75. Beyond the Search Bar: Navigating the AI Literature Review
Imagine you are developing an idea for new research. You find a mountain of journal articles that seems perfect, but how can we process the vast amount of information, and how can we use it for our own research? Or imagine you need to synthesise 5 studies on “remote work productivity” for your next class on organisation research by tomorrow. In the past, this was a manual grind and involved a great deal of labour. While producing high-quality research remains a rigorous human endeavour, AI-powered literature review apps now allow you to synthesise insights more efficiently by having a conversation directly with the literature. We often talk about the “hype” versus the “real promise” of AI in management and social science. But how do we actually manage this? Today, I want to take you through three research engines that I’ve been exploring and using for quite some time: Elicit.com, Scite.ai, and Consensus. First, we will examine their specific functionalities—including recent advancements in agentic workflows and structured data extraction—to identify the unique purposes and benefits each tool offers to the researcher.
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