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Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
Ralph D. Stacey
ISBN: 978-1-55542-463-3
Hardcover
240 pages
September 1992
US $45.00 add_to_cart.gif

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Table of Contents
 
Preface.

The Author.

New Mind-Sets for Managing the Future.

The Failure of Conventional Management: Using Orderly Strategies in a Disorderly World.

Stable Instability: Creating the Far-from-Equillibium Organization.

Creativity and Continuous Chaos: Discovering the Undiscovered in Complex Organizations.

Strategic Thinking and Continuous Contention: Confronting an Open-Anded Future.

Strategic Agenda: Deciphering the Patterns in Goals and Actions.

Strategic Control: Managing the Boundary Between Plans and Change.

Participation, Heirarchy, and Stability: Finding the Middle Ground.

Steps Toward Managing an Unkowable Future.

Note.

Index.