Diagnosing the System for Organizations Paperback / softback
by Stafford Beer
Part of the Classic Beer Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world?s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched.
His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know."—Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. "If ... anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer ... everyone in management ... should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and?even elegant diagrams."—The Economist In Brain of the Firm and The Heart of Enterprise Stafford Beer worked out the scientific laws that govern any viable system.
They constitute the basis for this book which is concerned solely with the application of those laws to the understanding of any particular enterprise.
In the form of a Handbook or Manager's Guide, Diagnosing the System deals with the fundamental problem of management?how to cope with complexity itself.
It shows you how to design (or redesign) an enterprise in conformity with the laws of viability, and will help you to diagnose faults in your organizational structure.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication Date:28/09/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780471951360
Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication Date:28/09/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780471951360
