As we propel the 5th Industrial Revolution, we are perforce to revisit the essence of management as a concept not only as a business practice. Scientific management principles have shaped organizations’ functioning and have defined why we associate their purpose with efficiency and effectiveness as a consistent feature of the history of industriousness. This paper is an invitation to cocreate a new management education manifesto. At the core of such a manifesto lies a reassessment of the practice of management, to not only rethink its essence but also its relationship to leadership, responsibility, practical judgement and collective action. Doing so would initiate a process of rediscovering that management as originally conceived is integral to human flourishing; as, management after all is also MAN-AGEMENT. Hence, management education as a manifesto is not only a pedagogy and a new mode of learning. It is also about cultivating stance-taking and responsibilization integral to human flourishing.
