Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations

ISBN-13: 9781555424633 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 240 str.

Ralph D. Stacey

Opis

It's What You Don't Know That Counts

Discover the important roles chance and uncertainty play in successful strategic planning. In this ingenious work, author Ralph D. Stacey shows managers how their companies can benefit from the unexpected developments that impact their business and how they can prepare to creatively leverage the opportunities such developments present. He explains how an appreciation of conflict and team dialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energy of their organizations. And he illustrates his theories with real-world examples from Sony, Kodak, Federal Express and other noted market innovators.

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Spis treści

Preface.

The Author.

New Mind–Sets for Managing the Future.

The Failure of Conventional Management: Using Orderly Strategies in a Disorderly World.

Stable Instability: Creating the Far–from–Equillibium Organization.

Creativity and Continuous Chaos: Discovering the Undiscovered in Complex Organizations.

Strategic Thinking and Continuous Contention: Confronting an Open–Anded Future.

Strategic Agenda: Deciphering the Patterns in Goals and Actions.

Strategic Control: Managing the Boundary Between Plans and Change.

Participation, Heirarchy, and Stability: Finding the Middle Ground.

Steps Toward Managing an Unkowable Future.

Note.

Index.

Blurb

This creative approach to successful strategic planning is based on understanding and directing the complex, often chaotic daily interactions that take place within companies. Ralph Stacey explains how an appreciation of the roles of control, conflict, and team dialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energy of their organizations and urges managers to find a new respect for the positive power of instability and chaos.