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Autore |
Flood Robert L |
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Titolo |
Rethinking the fifth discipline : learning within the unknowable / / Robert Louis Flood |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, c1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-66713-2 |
1-134-66714-0 |
0-203-02855-4 |
1-280-33246-8 |
0-203-15978-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-207) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Biography; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Senge's The Fifth Discipline; Bertalanffy's open systems theory; Beer's organisational cybernetics; Ackoff's interactive planning; Checkland's soft systems approach; Churchman's critical systemic thinking; Senge's The Fifth Discipline revisited; Concepts; Towards systemic thinking; The demise of problems, solutions and normal organisational life; Getting to grips with complexity; Deepening systemic appreciation; Window 1: Systems of processes; Window 2: Systems of structure |
Window 3: Systems of meaningWindow 4: Systems of knowledge-power; Prismatic thought; Approach; Organisational learning and transformation; Systemic evaluation; Instrumental and experiential action; Practical animation; Local Area Policing (LAP) in York, UK; Reflections and key insights of systemic thinking; Further reading; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Fifth Discipline' is one of the very few approaches to management that has attained position on the International Hall of Fame. Professor Flood's book explains and critiques the ideas in straight forward terms. This book makes significant and fundamental improvements to the |
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