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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816363303321

Autore

Flood Robert L

Titolo

Rethinking the fifth discipline : learning within the unknowable / / Robert Louis Flood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, c1999

ISBN

1-134-66713-2

1-134-66714-0

0-203-02855-4

1-280-33246-8

0-203-15978-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

658

Soggetti

Management - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

'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



core discipline - systemic thinking. It establishes crucial developments in systemic thinking in the context of the learning organisation, including creativity and organisational transformation. It is therefore a very important text for strategic planners, organisational change agents and consultants.The main features