Rethinking management : radical insights from the complexity sciences / Chris Mowles.

By: Mowles, ChrisMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Gower, ©2011Description: xi, 275 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409429333; 1409429334Subject(s): Management | Leadership | Strategic planning | Performance -- Management | Leadership | Management | Performance -- Management | Strategic planning | Management | Strategische Planung | Unsicherheit | KomplexitätDDC classification: 658 LOC classification: HD31 | .M69 2011
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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