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Managing the Unknowable
Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
by Ralph D. Stacey
ISBN: 1555424635
ISBN-13: 9781555424633
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
Published date: 1992
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.25 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.05 pounds
Pages: 219
Publisher's Notes
Conventional rules of management dictate that success is achieved by establishing and maintaining organizational stability and harmony. According to Ralph D. Stacey, however, just the opposite is true. In Managing the Unknowable he demonstrates how winning organizations have learned to embrace instability and benefit from its inherent tension and conflict. Stacey shows executives and managers how powerful strategic planning is based on uncovering and directing the complex, often chaotic interactions that take place daily within companies. He explains how chaos can inspire creativity and describes the vital roles contradiction and conflict play in developing strategy. He offers guidance in building the skills required to handle unknowable futures, including advice on establishing self-organizing teams, encouraging multiple cultures, and improving group learning skills. Stacey uses examples from real-life companies to illustrate his theories, showing how Sony has attained competitive advantage without a controlled plan, leaving much of its new product R&D, for example, entirely to chance; global competition has forced Kodak to embrace a management process that leverages small, chance changes into major strategic successes; and Federal Express, Amstrad, and Honda discovered their organizations' strategic missions through day-to-day operations.
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Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
Stacey, Ralph D
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 1992 USED - Standard. Book/DJ have only minor reading wear; binding is square and tight; text is clean and unmarked. BOOKSMART offers free domestic shipping (media mail) on orders of three or more books. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Booksmart (United States)
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Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
Stacey, Ralph D
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 1992. 1st Ed. so stated, 1st Printing, number row 10-1, HB/DJ, F/F, 219 pp. Conventional rules of management dictate that success is achieved by establishing and maintaining organizational stability and harmony. According to Stacey, however, just the opposite is true. In this book he demonstrates how winning organizations have learned to embrace instability and benefit from its inherent tension and conflict.. First Edition. Cloth Over Boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Our Bookshelf (United States)
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STACEY, RALPH D
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD, 1993. Brand new. Stacey (strategic management, U. of Herefordshire, England) shows how the principles of chaos science not only can, but necessarily do, affect the management of business organizations. He explains how managers can use the daily chaotic interactions within ( more information) Offered by Thunder Books (United States)
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