Few social systems are as unfamiliar to us as the one in which each of us spends the majority of our day. Aside from terms like "work," "bureaucracy," and "career," we have little language to describe what we know about the organization of companies, authorities, churches, schools, and theaters. This lack of an elaborate language might not be regrettable if it weren't for the impression that a single term bears the weight of describing all that needs to be described here: the word "management." Dirk Baecker explores in a series of essays what this "management" entails and what its inadequately considered organizational prerequisites are. Introduction: Introduced to oneself through this beautiful mistake, interest in communication.