In this paper I present several personal performative definitions of management which I collected from a group of students at the Warsaw University's School of Management. The definitions are in the form of short poems. They are rooted in the students' everyday lives and observations as the students take part in management education in Poland, encounter alternative (non-mainstream) ways of looking at organization and management, and experience Poland's transition to a market economy. The poems are ironic and express the author's need for a creative reconstruction of reality.
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