Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations - Hardcover

Stacey, Ralph D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555424635 ISBN 13: 9781555424633

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1992

Synopsis

It's What You Don't Know That Counts

Discover the important roles chance and uncertainty play insuccessful strategic planning. In this ingenious work, author RalphD. Stacey shows managers how their companies can benefit from theunexpected developments that impact their business and how they canprepare to creatively leverage the opportunities such developmentspresent. He explains how an appreciation of conflict and teamdialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energyof their organizations. And he illustrates his theories withreal-world examples from Sony, Kodak, Federal Express and othernoted market innovators.

About this title

About the Author

Ralph Douglas Stacey is a British organizational theorist and Professor of Management at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, in the UK and one of the pioneers of enquiring into the implications of the natural sciences of complexity for understanding human organisations and their management.

From the Back Cover

This creative approach to successful strategic planning is based on understanding and directing the complex, often chaotic daily interactions that take place within companies. Ralph Stacey explains how an appreciation of the roles of control, conflict, and team dialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energy of their organizations and urges managers to find a new respect for the positive power of instability and chaos.

From the Inside Flap

Shows managers how successful strategic planning is based on understanding and directing the complex, often chaotic daily interactions that take place within companies. Explains how an appreciation of the roles of control, conflict, and team dialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energy of their organizations and urges managers to find a new respect for the positive power of instability and chaos.Discover the important role chance can play in successful strategic planning. In this ingeneous work, author Ralph D. Stacey shows managers how powerful planning is based on understanding and directing the complex, often chaotic, daily interactions that take place in business. He explains how an appreciation of the rols of control, conflict, and team dialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energy of their organizations. And he illustreates his theories with real-world examples from Soney, Kodak, Federal Express and other noted market innovators.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555424635
• ISBN 13: 9781555424633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 239