This book demonstrates ways of thinking and acting which can make a practical difference to leaders, managers and consultants in handling complexity. Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex, but there is little insigh...Daugiau...
Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If complexity isnt something that managers can control and leaders cannot harness, then what does a complexi...Daugiau...
Since the early 1990s, public sector organisations have been overwhelmed with what has come to be termed New Public Management (NPM) methods. NPM idealises performance, metrics, transparency and marketisation. This book explores some of the tensio...Daugiau...
Since the early 90s public sector organisations have been overwhelmed with what has come to be termed New Public Management (NPM) methods. NPM idealises performance, metrics, transparency and marketisation. This book explores some of the tensions wh...Daugiau...
Consultancy is a lucrative industry dependent on the production and use of tools and techniques which hold out the promise of success for the organisations it supports: transformation, or greater efficiency and effectiveness, perhaps even culture ch...Daugiau...
This book looks at consultancy and complexity. The expert authors bring together their experiences to provide vibrant accounts of how to lead in everyday organizational situations using practical judgement. The book reframes the role of consultant...Daugiau...
This book challenges the orthodox discourse on leadership often expressed in heroic and individualistic terms and presents leadership as a practice within which communication, research, imagination and ethical judgements are continuously impro...Daugiau...
Leading organisations in our contemporary world means grappling with unpredictability, painful pressures and continual conflict, all in the context of an acceleration in the pace of change. We expect the impossible from heroic leaders and they rarel...Daugiau...
This book interprets insights from the complexity sciences to explore seven types of complexity better to understand the predictable unpredictability of social life. ...Daugiau...
This book interprets insights from the complexity sciences to explore seven types of complexity better to understand the predictable unpredictability of social life. Drawing on the natural and social sciences, it describes how complexity models are...Daugiau...
What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to apply best practice, or to take up evidence-based management and what kind of thinking does this imp...Daugiau...
Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics remains unique amongst strategic management textbooks by taking a refreshingly alternative look at the subject. Drawing on the sciences of complexity as well as a broad range of social scient...Daugiau...
This book argues that paradox, ambiguity and uncertainty in organizational life are the norm rather than the exception for leaders and managers. Many managers are implicitly aware of this, but they rarely spend much time reflecting on what it is t...Daugiau...
This book argues that paradox, ambiguity and uncertainty in organizational life are the norm rather than the exception for leaders and managers. Many managers are implicitly aware of this, but they rarely spend much time reflecting on what it is t...Daugiau...
What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to apply best practice, or to take up evidence-based management and what kind of thinking does this imp...Daugiau...
