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The unbounded mind : breaking the chains of traditional business thinking / Ian I. Mitroff and Harold A. Linstone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitroff, Ian I.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business education--United States.
- Business education.
- Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- Critical thinking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this ground-breaking work, two pioneering thinkers in business studies pinpoint the profound changes they believe must occur in the way that business executives think, make decisions and solve problems if America is to remain competitive.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. The World That Was and Is No More; Part I: Old Thinking; 2. Agreement: The First Way of Knowing; 3. The World as a Formula: The Second Way of Knowing; Part II: Complex Thinking; 4. Multiple Realities: The Third Way of Knowing; 5. Conflict: The Fourth Way of Knowing; Part III: New Thinking; 6. Unbounded Systems Thinking: The Fifth Way of Knowing; Part IV: Applications and Methods of New Thinking; 7. Bhopal: Catastrophe Making; 8. Paradigm Breaking: Surfacing and Challenging Key Assumptions; Part V: The Future of Knowing; 9. Conclusion: To See the World as an Interconnected Whole
- Appendix: Deeper Aspects of Unbounded Systems ThinkingReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 172) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987954-0
- 0-19-535612-8
- 1-4294-0617-8
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