Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: stacey ralph

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  • THE CHAOS FRONTIER
    RALPH D. STACEY
    The Chaos Frontier: Creative Strategic Control for Business presents the effective ways of managing and controlling innovative organizations in chaotic times. This book discusses the theories of chaos and self-organization developed by mathematicians, biologists, chemists, and physicists. Organized into four parts encompassing 13 chapters, this book begins with an overview of ...

    $970.00

  • TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
    RALPH STACEY
    Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not...

    $1,540.00

  • COMPLEXITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL REALITY
    RALPH D. STACEY
    Approaches to leadership and management are still dominated by prescriptions – usually claimed as scientific – for top executives to choose the future direction of their organization. The global financial recession and the collapse of investment capitalism (surely not planned by anyone) make it quite clear that top executives are simply not able to choose future directions. Des...

    $1,600.00

  • COMPLEXITY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF MANAGING IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS
    STACEY, RALPH / GRIFFIN, DOUGLAS
    A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a ‘thing’, a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which organizations are complex responsive processes of relating between people. Bringing together the work ...

    $1,460.00

  • EXPERIENCING SPONTANEITY, RISK & IMPROVISATION IN ORGANIZATIONAL LIFE
    SHAW, PATRICIA / STACEY, RALPH
    The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power relating. The result is a way of thinking about life in organizations that focuses attention on how organizational members cope with the unknown...

    $1,460.00

  • COMPLEXITY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF LEADING ORGANIZATIONS
    GRIFFIN, DOUGLAS / STACEY, RALPH
    The contributors to this book are leaders, consultants or managers in organizations who provide narrative accounts of their actual work and daily experience. They explore how the perspective of complex responsive processes assists them to make sense of their experience and so to develop their practice. Offering a different method of making sense of an individual’s experience in...

    $1,360.00

  • EXPERIENCING EMERGENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS
    STACEY, RALPH
    Examining the experiences of organizational practitioners, this informative book features contributions from experienced leaders, consultants and managers in various organizations, and narrative accounts of the contributors work address key topical questions. Rather than offering descriptions of organizational life, this book provides reflective accounts of real life experience...

    $1,460.00

  • COMPLEX RESPONSIVE PROCESSES IN ORGANIZATIONS
    RALPH STACEY
    The past decade has seen increasing focus on the importance of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called 'knowledge economy'. This is reflected in the popularity amongst practicing managers and organizational theorists of notions of learning, sense-making, knowledge creation, knowledge management and intellectual capital in organizations and more...

    $1,460.00

  • COMPLEXITY AND GROUP PROCESSES
    RALPH D. STACEY
    The increasing complexity of interdependence between people in modern life makes it more important than ever to understand processes of human relating. In the West we tend to base our understanding of relating on the individual. Complexity and Group Processes suggests an alternative way of understanding human relating. The key questions covered in this book are: · who am I and ...

    $1,200.00