Beyond Dispute
The Invention of Team Syntegrity
1st Edition
Published on 23. June 1994
Book
Hardback
380 pages
978-0-471-94451-5 (ISBN)
Description
The arguments in this fascinating, interdisciplinary book are wide-ranging, running the gamut from company management to the nature of consciousness. The author discusses the theory of team syntegrity and the social technique of syntegration which works in practice, offering a potent management tool for developmental planning.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
768 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-94451-5 (9780471944515)
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Person
Stafford Beer was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics.
Content
THE STORY OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL IDEA.
A Long Gestation.
On Protocols.
Path-Finding Experiments.
The Academic Milieu.
The Corporate Scene.
In the Community.
ENHANCING PROCEDURES.
Protocols Revisited.
Vexed Questions of Allocation.
Developmental Planning.
Governance or Government?.
THE FORM OF THE MODEL.
The Structure of Icosahedral Space.
The Dynamics of Icosahedral Space.
Self-Reference in Icosahedral Space.
EPILOGUE.
The Concept of Recursive Consciousness.
COLLABORATORS' SURPLUS.
Reverberating Networks: Modelling Information Propagation inSyntegration by Spectral Analysis (A. Jalali).
From Prototype to Protocol: Design for Doing (J. Truss).
Pliny the Later: Elective Selection (J. Hancock).
You Drive for Show but You Putt for Dough: A Facilitator'sPerspective (A. Pearson).
One Man's Signal Is Another Man's Noise: Another Facilitator'sPerspective (D. Beatty).
About Face: A Turn for Better Planning (J. Truss).
The Very Model of a Modern System-General: How the Viable SystemModel Actually Works (A. Leonard).
References.
Index.
A Long Gestation.
On Protocols.
Path-Finding Experiments.
The Academic Milieu.
The Corporate Scene.
In the Community.
ENHANCING PROCEDURES.
Protocols Revisited.
Vexed Questions of Allocation.
Developmental Planning.
Governance or Government?.
THE FORM OF THE MODEL.
The Structure of Icosahedral Space.
The Dynamics of Icosahedral Space.
Self-Reference in Icosahedral Space.
EPILOGUE.
The Concept of Recursive Consciousness.
COLLABORATORS' SURPLUS.
Reverberating Networks: Modelling Information Propagation inSyntegration by Spectral Analysis (A. Jalali).
From Prototype to Protocol: Design for Doing (J. Truss).
Pliny the Later: Elective Selection (J. Hancock).
You Drive for Show but You Putt for Dough: A Facilitator'sPerspective (A. Pearson).
One Man's Signal Is Another Man's Noise: Another Facilitator'sPerspective (D. Beatty).
About Face: A Turn for Better Planning (J. Truss).
The Very Model of a Modern System-General: How the Viable SystemModel Actually Works (A. Leonard).
References.
Index.