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In organizations, there are always situations that can’t be fixed with top-down directives. Often the only thing left to do is to craft cooperative relationships through understanding, power, or trust. The concept of lateral leadership – leading to the side – brings together ideas about how we can create processes of understanding, construct arenas of power, and build trusting (or mistrusting) relationships.

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan K?hl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of European Jews under the Nazis.

Drawing on the well-researched case of the mass killings of Jews by a Hamburg reserve police battalion, K?hl shows how ordinary men from ordinary professions were induced to carry out massacres. It may have been that coercion, money, identification with the end goal, the enjoyment of...

This book shows that the introduction of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) of credit points as a new accounting unit at universities has led to increased bureaucracy and the schoolmaster-style regimentation of Bachelor's and Master's courses. It explains how, due to the pressure of having to plan every single working hour of studying in advance, a 'Sudoku Effect' is created by the necessity to combine courses, exams and modules in such a way that the points 'add up'. An unintentional side effect of the introduction of the ECTS, the Sudoku Effect has led to more classroom style...

Every change takes its toll. Stefan KUhl critically examines the blind enthusiasm that continues to celebrate the leveling of hierarchies and the decentralization of organizations. Relying on studies performed in European and U.S. companies, KUhl describes why these management concepts can carry organizations to the edge of extinction. Organizations are facing the challenge of coming to grips with the threat of losing their identity, ever-escalating complexity, and the power struggles that result from both.

Bei Projekten, die sich mit schlecht definierten Problemen beschaftigen, fuhren die Prinzipien des klassischen Projektmanagements nicht weiter: Projektmanager versuchen vergeblich, eine lineare Vorgehensweise aufrechtzuerhalten, auch wenn Zielkorridore, Betroffene und Rahmenbedingungen nicht genau zu bestimmen sind. Basierend auf aktuellen organisationstheoretischen Uberlegungen wird eine grundlegend andere Betrachtungs- und Herangehensweise vorgeschlagen: Erprobungen zu beginnen, bevor uberhaupt zu Ende gedacht wurde. Die Evaluation von Projekten setzt nicht an Ziel-Ist-Vergleichen an,...

Organizations construct their environments themselves. From the bewildering, chaotic array of impressions, they take those bits of information that enable them to produce such a view of the environment – one that makes it possible for them to operate in the environment with relative confidence. Thus, contrary to what traditional market research suggests, organizations do not respond objectively to existing environmental conditions, but invent, construct and create their realities themselves. The goal of exploring the environment – or, more specifically, exploring markets...

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations. In this groundbreaking book, Stefan K?hl offers a new analysis of the integral role that membership in organizations played in facilitating the annihilation of European Jews under the Nazis.

Drawing on the well-researched case of the mass killings of Jews by a Hamburg reserve police battalion, K?hl shows how ordinary men from ordinary professions were induced to carry out massacres. It may have been that coercion, money, identification with the end goal, the enjoyment of...

Kaum ein Begriff hat im Management einen so wohlfeilen Klang wie der der Strategie - und gleichzeitig ist kaum ein Begriff so unklar bestimmt. Als Ausweg aus dem Begriffswirrwarr wird in diesem Buch mit Ruckgriff auf die Systemtheorie eine Definition vorgeschlagen, die es erlaubt, verschiedene Strange des Strategiediskurses zu sortieren: Strategien sind "Mittelsuchprogramme," um einen vorher definierten Zweck zu erreichen. Mit der in diesem Buch vorgestellten Vorgehensweise gelingt es, die klassischen Vorstellungen von Strategien mit der modernen Organisationstheorie zu konfrontieren und...