Rethinking management : radical insights from the complexity sciences /

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Author / Creator:Mowles, Chris.
Imprint:Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Gower, c2011.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8601981
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ISBN:1409429342 (electronic bk.)
9781409429340 (electronic bk.)
9781409429333 (hardback : alk. paper)
1409429334 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Original 9781409429333 1409429334 1409429342
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.