The Poverty of Strategy: Organization in the Shadows of Technology

ISBN-13: 9781316604717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Robin Holt; Mike Zundel

Opis

In challenging the world to show itself as a measured site of resources, opportunities, distinctions and goals, strategy leaves no pause for thought, it has become a small science of imposed patterns. This book rescues strategy from the boundless sway of technology and thoughtlessness.

Recenzje

'Combining Nietzschean gaiety with the political sobriety of Hannah Arendt, The Poverty of Strategy rewrites the theory of organisational strategy as an open-ended response to Alan Turing's implied question: Who am I? From the ruins of the ancient polis to artificial intelligence, Holt and Zundel deftly turn managerial reason inside out to discover irreverent, unfixed life lurking in the shadows of modernity's most hermetic machines.' Reinhold Martin, Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University

Spis treści

Introduction: strategy as the basic question of organization?; Part I. Authenticity: 1. Strategy and the organization of authenticity in the polis; 2. Can the strategoi ever build a polis?; 3. Strategy in the lifeworld, and the problem with home; Part II. The Three Epochs of Strategy: Technē, Technology, Technogenesis: 4. Technē – creating organizational forms from the earth; 5. Technology, machinery and giving over to the general in strategic practice; 6. Strategy as world picture; 7. Who or what is running strategy?; 8. The apparatus of Napoleon's forms of communication; 9. Strategy no longer thinks in terms of human beings; Part III. The Open: 10. Impoverished by strategy; 11. Reaching for open – strategy unbound.