Rethinking management radical insights from complexity sciences /

Main Author: Mowles, Chris.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Gower Pub., 2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10490700
Table of Contents:
  • Why write this book?
  • Consultancy as practical engagement in organisational politics
  • Leaders, managers and consultants as researchers : using the self as an instrument of research
  • Theories of leadership as magical-mythical thinking
  • Charisma and passion-visioning the future
  • Choosing organisational values, changing culture
  • Choosing the future
  • Performance management and targets-control, resistance, improvisation
  • Reconsidering leadership and management drawing on radical insights from the complexity sciences.