Managing the Unknown
By Creating New Futures
Published on 20. June 1994
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-07-707626-9 (ISBN)
Description
The central theme of this text is that most managers perceive the future as a force to which they must respond reactively when, in fact, they are building and moulding the future in their actions and motives of the present. Creating the best future for an organization means looking beyond traditional management techniques and applying new vision and initiative. This text presents 12 views from leading management innovators on how to influence and control the future. Chapters are drawn together with quotations, poetry and pictures to stimulate a creative response, but with an underlying, pro-active focus that should enable the reader to be a leader of the future rather than a follower.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
5800 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-707626-9 (9780077076269)
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Content
Brief words from the contributors I; the business environment of the 21st century, Douglas Hague; you do not need to leave your room, Franz Kafka; up to the job, Alistair Mant; words from others; learning as creative destruction, Max Boisot; Harbour of K, Paul Klee; working on the book I; the equitable company, Coralie Palmer; words from others II; work, value, organization in 2010, Sholom Glouberman; working on the book II; new futures - new citizenship, Olya Khaleelee; words from others III; the emerging businessphere, Ronnie Lessem; Ode to Joy, Beethoven; new futures at whose cost?, Eden Charles; shaping the post-modern economy, James Robertson; words and numbers to remember; town and country, Roy Lichtenstein; revisioning organizations by developing female values, Judi Marshall; words from others V; barriers to learning the organization, Roger Harrison; an extract from "Burnt Norton", T.S. Eliot; the future of identity, Philip Boxer; brief words from the contributors II.