Managing the Unknowable
Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
1. Edition August 1992
240 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-1-55542-463-3
John Wiley & Sons
It's What You Don't Know That Counts
Discover the important roles chance and uncertainty play insuccessful strategic planning. In this ingenious work, author RalphD. Stacey shows managers how their companies can benefit from theunexpected developments that impact their business and how they canprepare to creatively leverage the opportunities such developmentspresent. He explains how an appreciation of conflict and teamdialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energyof their organizations. And he illustrates his theories withreal-world examples from Sony, Kodak, Federal Express and othernoted market innovators.
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.
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.
Ralph Douglas Stacey is a British organizational theorist and Professor of Management at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, in the UK and one of the pioneers of enquiring into the implications of the natural sciences of complexity for understanding human organisations and their management.
