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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flood, Robert L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Philosophy.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-134-66713-2

1-134-66714-0

0-203-02855-4

1-280-33246-8

0-203-15978-0

9780203028551

OCLC:

57070566